Maybe I was too harsh with the 'facts' bit but the reality if local village in Portugal doesn't have EV chargers is all the more reason for local residents to push the public infrastructure to do more, in Portugal EV + solar would be no-brainer year round. Even here in not so sunny England, this month my electricity bill for the house+charging the car is going to be nothing more than standing charge.
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In France there are literally chargers in every village, and they all work.
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As for getting to Faro for examples, its not hard at all in any EV, and 3hrs of stops over 24hrs of driving seems pretty reasonable, unless your really believe you can drive non stop for 1000 miles.
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If I go the France route (which I used to and yes once did it in one hit!!) door to door is 1700 mile each way.
Nowadays we go down to Plymouth - Santander which knocks the mileage down to circa 1050 mile.
After 23 hours on the boat I do the remaining 725 in one hit with maybe a coffee stop. My Euro 6 diesel has a tank capacity of circa 900 miles so don't need to stop for fuel.
Generally, it is the range that stops me being interested in EV at present, if and when one of the affordable EV's can do 500 mile on a charge then that would be the time I would look at them.
I hope that development over the next few years will get us to that point, just like ICE cars, my first Vauxhall Viva (58 bhp) did circa 30 mpg, my current diesel (180 bhp) does circa 58 mpg.
So for me it is all about how soon they can produce an EV that suits my needs.
But I think we should also remember that many people who live in Britain (and other countries) are shackled by where they live, apartment blocks, high rise, terraced streets where they can't get outside their own house so for me an EV is still something for the people who are perhaps a bit more fortunate with their living circumstances / financial status.
However, history repeats itself and I feel sure the early owners of ICE cars were the "better off"