Monday 11 April 2011

EVs: 1000 reasons why: No. 4

Don't take this for granted.
Next up in my occasional series of reasons why EVs are important:

No. 4: Freedom.

Freedom to drive where you want, when you want. To work, to a business meeting, to take the kids to school, to the supermarket and to visit friends. A freedom most of us are able to take for granted today but which may be lost unless we accelerate the move to the Electron Economy and to a transport system powered by electricity.

Range anxiety? How about a social network of free to use at-home charging points, a commercial network of fast charge and battery swap stations, and batteries that simply offer a range sufficient to remove the worry (about 300 miles, since you ask). All increasingly charged using electricity from renewable sources.

A bit like climate change deniers, those that deny the future of transport will be electric are a dwindling bunch of non-believers and spread betters. It's coming anyway. What's more fun: embracing and enjoying the future as a leader of change, or standing in the way of it with your cynical face on, delaying the change and making the transition more difficult and expensive for yourself?

Don't take my word for it, speak to someone you know who drives an electric car.