Owning an electric vehicle isn’t easy when you don’t have a driveway. Because more important even than how cheap they are to run, cars must first and foremost make our lives easier than they would otherwise be. If charging is a chore, this ceases to be the case. But what if there was some kind of alternative reality, identical in many ways to life as we know it, but better suited to electric cars? A place big enough to explore but small enough that no journey could use a full charge, with no power-sapping motorways and where most property comes with its own parking.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? And that’s before you get to the delicious dairy and world-class spuds. Yes, I’m talking about Jersey, and if I lived there I’d buy an electric car faster than you can say moo. As a visitor in an electric car, however, things aren’t quite so rosy. Yes, there are charging points, but using them isn’t a case of simply pre-registering online or swiping your credit card and being charged as you charge. No, you need a key, and it has to be obtained from the headquarters of the island’s energy supplier.
Inconvenient, but nothing compared with the moment you phone up and discover that the only employee who knows the whereabouts of said key has gone home for the day. And therein lies the issue with electric cars. It’s not that they’re not good, but that there always seems to be an obstacle of some sort.
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