I’m old enough to remember when the prices went above £1 a litre, all the garages having to get their signs updated so they could have four digits on the price. Some of them using wheelie bin stickers or handwritten "1"s as a stop gap.

Wonder what they’ll do this time around, the ones that didn’t think far enough ahead to have a full seven-segment display fitted?

  • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    Having moved to the US recently and encountering the insane distances people drive here.

    I do wonder why (other than the downwards mobility of a decayed empire) everyone in the UK isn’t using EVs, unless you’re doing donuts on a roundabout on your way beat up staff over a ham sandwich, an EV can get you from Birmingham to anywhere south of Glasgow on a single charge.

    • Quicky@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Because huge swathes of UK housing is hundreds of years old and doesn’t have driveways or even nearby on-road parking so cars can’t be charged at home, and the charging infrastructure that does exist is insufficient or inconvenient.

      • keanu0396@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 个月前

        This is a huge part, I used to live in an upstairs flat which formed part of a house in a Victorian terrace. Parking was parallel parking in any nearby street, with no front garden worth mentioning, and definitely no driveways.

        There is literally no way that I can think of to make a situation like that work with home charging, and sadly similar situations will apply to millions of people. If the only solution involves me driving to the nearest supermarket car park and plugging in there for an hour every few days, then that isn’t a solution at all unfortunately.

        • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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          3 个月前

          Especially as commercial chargers are waaaaayyy more expensive per unit, makes the financial savings argument disappear too.

          • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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            3 个月前

            A few months back we idly pondered using my partner’s PIP towards getting a new EV. As we don’t have a driveway and we rent, we’d have to take the offer that includes membership to one of the charging schemes. Thing is, it includes the subscription, but not the cost of the charging, which ends up being only just shy of what petrol costs. And the nearest charger is a mile away.

            So we just bought an old, cheap petrol car.