Mark is a long-time motorist and has been an electric vehicle user for the past two years. His family shares one car and he has four young children with two them active in a number of sports. Mark’s uses his EV for local shopping trips and cross-city sports trips.
-
1.
What vehicle are you currently driving and what do you think of it?
Tesla Model x – very versatile family car, lots of space for children, bikes, scooters, sports training bags, school bags and everything else.
-
2.
What do you consider to be the benefits of driving an Electric Vehicle?
The benefits are primarily environmental, but being able to charge at home every night is very handy.
-
3.
What are your thoughts on the existing infrastructure to support EV drivers? Is it sufficient?
The geographic coverage of charging stations is generally good, but 50KW chargers are too slow and there are too many single-vehicle charging sites. If you get these and the charger is broken or in use, it can add a lot of stress and time to your journey. Longer distance trips are still difficult because of the reliance on single vehicle charging points/
-
4.
What advice would you give to someone considering their first EV?
Only make the switch if you can charge at home.
