The "WTF" Thread

I just wonder locally how many people will find themselves out of power in the middle of nowhere lol. Lincolnshire is rather rural with few charging points or large towns. My current car has a reduced range of around 400 miles unlike my previous which was around 100 miles more and I do notice the difference so the up to 200 for a pure electric? (example as they vary). I drive a hybrid so electricity generation is not an issue. As I did just a bit less than 200,000 miles in my previous car (another hybrid) I think the battery production is not really an issue as it did this on the original battery so miles per pollution was probably great. One point that I read recently is that these electric cars have longer life than previous petrol vehicles so comparison regarding pollution is probably tricky. As a rough comparison my previous hybrid had similar performance to my last pure petrol car. The petrol car did around 35mpg and the hybrid around 60mpg so do the maths over say 100,000 miles?

I am not aware of any negativety locally but I can see that tempers will be inflamed if big incentives are given to electric and heavy taxes on petrol or diesel. I have noticed a bit of a backlash against moves on diesel cars nationally.

Whilst on the subject of Teslas, my own opinion is that the biggest danger with these is the driverless control. They apparently use lane control but I have my lane warning permanently turned off as it drives me mad as I swerve about avoiding the proliferation of potholes. On a back road it is often not reliable anyway. As they are soon to aprove this for use on motorways here (some?) I can see it being a good reason to avoid them. A good reason for living where I do, miles away from any motorway. They almost appear to be brushing over the fact that people have been killed when they fail.