BEV cars are a good idea while society and the supporting infrastructure works but leave you up shit creek without a paddle when it collapses.
Nicely ignoring all the supporting infrastructure for gas cars, which is far more difficult to replicate at home.
You have this the wrong way around. Charging at home is just a crutch due to lack of charging infrastructure. Charging at home or street level should never be a goal. It just doesn't scale well economically. Just look back at car history and you'll see why. The reason there are gas stations is that these work better compared to having a tank of gasoline in each home. You can still have a tank of gasoline at home; all you need to buy is a tank and a pump. I'm quite sure that you can find an oil company that comes over to fill it for you. However, once you get the bill (including delivery costs), you'll quickly see it is cheaper to go to a gas station. Economy of scale.
Agreed the grid operator here has changed its view over the last 8 years of monitoring Bev usages , initially home charging was seen as a key factor. Increasing people are not using home charging and using local fast charger stations these are now very common and one is within reach of a lot of people
In fact I know a women that pulls out of her drive every Sunday to go to the local fast chargers and armed with a coffee and a Sunday Newspaper she passers a comfortable 30 mins yet she has a Evss in her drive
Here domestic evese is 50 % subsidised yet nearly 25% of new BEv Owners don’t bother seeking the subsidy
The other factor is that BEV owners are 4 times more likely to install PV systems and PV owners are 2x likely to be BEV owners !!!!
Arguments about “ prepping “ are so niche and frankly “ bizzzare “ as to simply deflect from the mainstream reality. In 35 years I d lost my electricity supply for 4 hours total !!!!
In my view within 10 years it will be like public smoking ie unacceptable to drive a dino juice car. You’ll be afraid to admit it in polite company !!!, you’ll go red faced when asked what you drive !!!! If it’s an ice