1. The charging infrastructure is NOT in place. Those chargers that are available are often either not working, the wrong account from yours or there is a long queue.Nope, the infrastructure is improving all the time, and the fast chargers nowadays charge from 30% to 90% in around 45 minutes. Anyway most journeys are only 80 miles or so, more than enough for a round trip with an average range (250 mile) EV.2. Most people do not have off street parking so charging at home is not an option.Most people *in London* the rest of the country exists, and new buildings come with EV chargers pretty much as standard, a colleague of mine has just bought one.3. Range anxiety is very real, especially in Winter when you are in a traffic jam with your lights, windscreen wipers, heater and radio on.This is, simply put, codswallop. I have been driving an EV as my only car for the last 18 months. Wipers, heating, radio and other ancillaries have an absolutely negligible impact on the cars range, inconsequential in fact. 4. Did I mention the infrastructure?You did, you're still wrong.5. Any eco benefit from using batteries instead of petrol is more than cancelled out by the production of the batteries.Also no. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths6. Lithium mining is extremely polluting.It's certainly not ideal, but no more so than deep sea drilling, which will happen as the price of oil increases and deeper wells become economically viable to exploit, whereas at the moment they aren't.7. What happens to all the old batteries in 10 years time?Google is your friend:https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a44022888/electric-car-battery-recycling/8. The UK switching to EVs looks good on paper but if you are buying the batteries from abroad then you are simply shifting the pollution problem from the UK to somewhere else, not to mention that countries like China could then be able to hold the West to ransom and charge what they like for them.Also very out of date, enormous reserves of lithium have just been discovered in the US and phosphorous (another necessary component) in Norway. Neither of which are exceptionally hostile to Europe right about nowhttps://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.articlehttps://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/10/huge-mineral-discovery-in-norway-could-supply-battery-and-solar-panels-for-the-next-100-ye
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