Pro's and con's for buying an electric vehicle

EasyT

In 20 years time I doubt I will be breathing - let alone driving 

Malcolm Mehta

£21,500 less the £4500 government grant making it £17,000 so about £5000 more than I paid for the petrol version.

KjellNN

My Mother died at 98, so I hope I take after her!

Malcolm Mehta

By then advances in medical technology might make us all immortal!

Metheven

That won't be rolled out Malcolm, the country cannot afford immortality. You will be told to take a pill when you are of no use to anyone.

Malcolm Mehta

They'll have the technology to combat the aging process too, Metheven. Just think I could still be delivering pizzas to you when I'm 120 years old!

JVB66

The planet is already over populated without making it worse,,and by then pizzas will be,delivered quicker and cheaper by drone

Goldie146

I don't think that eating pizzas is the way to longevity.

EasyT

I doubt that the are that unhealthy unless eaten to the exclusion of other foods Goldie.

KjellNN

Think of the cost of the pensions if we kept going too long!

cyberyacht

That could be a bit salutary for some of us.

JVB66

But retirement age will be about 99

KjellNN

Does that mean we pensioners will have to go back to work again?  

JVB66

By the time Malcs " blue sky thinking"if ever,materialises we will be long gone 

Goldie146

I admit I’m biased. I don’t like pizza. I’m always disappointed.

Grant705

I have no desire to live until i am 100 and probably would be well satisfied with reaching 90 years of age. This is obviouslyassuming I am in good health until I pop my clogs.

What age would you be satisfied to attain?

 

 

brue

I think you have the makings of a new thread there Grant...

One of the reasons we bought an EV now is because we probably won't have the brain power to do the change later on. 

Rocky 2 buckets

Around the time I can’t look after myself. If I need someone to help me do the essentials in life. . . .I want out👍🏻

JVB66

I am quite happy each week to note that my name is not in the obituries in the local paper

cyberyacht

I have more a modest ambition. I worked in banking for 34 years, taking early retirement at 5 0. My cunning plan is to draw a pension for as long and I worked for them. Just so long as my longevity is more than an electric bike battery. 

KjellNN

I would agree.

My mum was pretty good untill she was around 96, so I am hoping for another 20 years.

cariadon

Child labour is used by many companies, and will continue to be used when the demand is for cheap products, but some work is more dangerous than others. As long as a company wants to make huge profits the practise will continue.

Malcolm Mehta

I think there needs to be more quality control over stuff entering into the UK market from overseas. It's ridiculous, for example, that tin openers that are sold over here but made overseas, don't work! How do you open a can of mushy peas with a tin opener that doesn't work? 

SteveL

There is always the fall back of the good old Swiss Army knife.😀A very useful bit of kit. Opens wine and beer as well.😂

Metheven

Just lift the ring pull and ....... pull 

If there is none then you bought the wrong can

SELL

What has tin openers got to do with Electric Vehicles, talk about going of topic.

Navigateur

Tin openers are made abroad - and don't work (apparently).

Electric cars are made abroad - and  . . . . . .

It is called "forewarned".

Spriddler

Of course you will; no one lives forever

KjellNN

We have two tin openers, one is from Ikea so no doubt made in China, or thereabouts, and it actually works very well.  So does the other one but I have no idea where it was made.

You seem to have been very unlucky with tin openers!

Personally, I prefer frozen garden peas, no tin opener required.

JVB66

You take it back to the place you  bought it ,if it is not due to "operator error"