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Post by gordo on Dec 26, 2023 15:27:08 GMT
A wheel chair user in Edinburgh has been forced to give up using an all electric car and go back to petrol, due to both cost and more importantly, the style of car needed and accessing charging points, which are not Disabled friendly at all. It would seem that in the rush to go green, Disabled and anyone else with special needs have been completely forgotten! from BBC News (Scotland) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67726590 |
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Post by terminator on Dec 27, 2023 7:32:34 GMT
I knew this would happen! Either the public chargers would be out of the reach of wheelchair users, I mean they're about 4 to 6 inches up on a concrete plinth with at least a 6 inch reach to the edge of the charger and you have to tap on a control panel to get the charger to input details and your card details before charging and some disabled people wouldn't be able to reach the panel which can be mid way or higher up the charger.
If the disabled person has to go 300 plus to an appointment then if it would take 4 hours in an ICE vehicle then it would add at least four hours plus to the journey as the person would need to charge once each way of the journey to get there and back.
I watch the Macmaster vlogs on you tube and he says EV's are not the future even though he spent £120,000 on a Porsche Taycan and it's now worth £50,000 after two years of him owning it. He did a video of what he would get for the EV about 6 months ago and the highest price was £58,000 and the lowest was £51,000, it will have lost more value since he got those prices. He was even quoted £40,000 for replacement batteries when he thought he had a problem with the batteries after he hit something in the road and the batteries stopped charging. It was nothing and they charged up fine ever since.
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