If you’re regularly spending all day driving, then sure, an electric car might be a pain. But personally if I’m doing a 6 hour drive I will take a break to eat and stretch my legs.
Sure, but that starts to pale if you’re doing several 6 hour drives a week.
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We may all discover post Covid19 that many of the journeys that today are regarded as essential will not be in the future.
Only a foolish management would not review the possible opportunity for doing things differently.
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This assumes that the relative has off street parking, which isn’t a given for most people
I agree. If you’re doing multiple nonstop 6 hour journeys every week then an EV would be a pain.
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I guess the gist of it is in the title though? 
What “struggling electric car industry “ ?
The most popular electric car, actually the most popular car of all, last month was the American Tesla M3. We then have the most popular of all time electric car, the Leaf, being built in Sunderland and then the true struggler, the iPace, being built in Austria. All the others are built in France, Germany or Korea as far as I can tell.
Sorry to deviate just slightly but I’m still holding out on hydrogen cars muscling the way into main stream, recall reading an article earlier this year about a breakthrough in the lab over the storage of it which would mean they don’t need to store it in high pressure tanks in the car. Suspect it be a while though to scale is to carn size etc etc and run tests
What are you waiting for then ?
Hyundai have had the Nexa, a hydrogen car, for quite a while.
Or is perhaps that you are waiting for us all to buy one before you dip your toe in the water, at the end of the exhaust pipe 
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At the current rate, I could cope with no car.
I’m doing about 3 months to the gallon at the moment.
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Polestar 2 for me.
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I recently had the pleasure of driving a Roewe eRX5. It’s a pure electric SUV.
The Chinese manufacturers are making huge strides in affordable all electrics. Once they make their way over I think they’ll be large players in our markets.
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If Trump allows it.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Brexit is meant to be the opportunity to do our own thing, but with the whole Huawei thing its as if weve gone from being EU led to Usa led instead
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It’s all talk, they’ll ban Huawei and let ZTE or a plethora of the other companies available in. They have too much IP to ignore now because they spend a ton on R&D to be the best and so that they can’t be easily ignored.
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AnarchistIf there’s the wrong end of a stick, you’ll find me holding it.
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Chinese are already here in the shape of LEVC (London Taxis) and Volvo, both owned by Geely, one of China’s great car makers.
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