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Morning all!
I was at the NGMC (National Green Mobility Conference) yesterday in Milton Keynes. There was an awful lot of talk about the future and how EV adoption can be 'easy'. Emphasis on 'talk', why? Because as a lot of the speakers mentioned, car manufacturers are talking a lot about big batteries, many miles of range etc etc... But when will it happen?! Much like the government talk about things, but we won't go there.
The solution is not simple. Car manufactures cannot make them quick enough, try and get a Kona or Leaf quickly... But then people will moan about infrastructure too. So, let's put charge points at every Burger King on every motorway! Ah, but ''EV's are too expensive!'' they will cry... it sometimes feels never ending.
I came away thinking hard about what the most prominent thing would be to change but I'm not sure. Education? When conducting some market research on OEM cable and granny chargers the responses from some of the parts department people were just shocking... ''Erm, this is the part number - I have no idea what ampage or length the cable is, what do you need it to be?'' - does that install faith in a new EV driver? No wonder there is confusion.
Sales, my background was car sales, specifically. I like to think I was genuine and very 'people' orientated but naturally there would be incentives to sell certain models, as many dealers would do, along with hefty contributions to help the customer out. Targets were lingering in my mind all the time. A chap at the NGMC yesterday told his dad to go and ask about a really efficient PHEV or full BEV to buy as a new car... the dealer he went to see ended up selling him a diesel, because it's ''economical''
Where do you think the most noise can be made to start EV's really spiking in their sales?
A blog we wrote earlier in the year relevant to the topic:
Electric cars are coming thick and fast... - Simply EV Charging Cables
Happy friday folks!
Conor
I was at the NGMC (National Green Mobility Conference) yesterday in Milton Keynes. There was an awful lot of talk about the future and how EV adoption can be 'easy'. Emphasis on 'talk', why? Because as a lot of the speakers mentioned, car manufacturers are talking a lot about big batteries, many miles of range etc etc... But when will it happen?! Much like the government talk about things, but we won't go there.
The solution is not simple. Car manufactures cannot make them quick enough, try and get a Kona or Leaf quickly... But then people will moan about infrastructure too. So, let's put charge points at every Burger King on every motorway! Ah, but ''EV's are too expensive!'' they will cry... it sometimes feels never ending.
I came away thinking hard about what the most prominent thing would be to change but I'm not sure. Education? When conducting some market research on OEM cable and granny chargers the responses from some of the parts department people were just shocking... ''Erm, this is the part number - I have no idea what ampage or length the cable is, what do you need it to be?'' - does that install faith in a new EV driver? No wonder there is confusion.
Sales, my background was car sales, specifically. I like to think I was genuine and very 'people' orientated but naturally there would be incentives to sell certain models, as many dealers would do, along with hefty contributions to help the customer out. Targets were lingering in my mind all the time. A chap at the NGMC yesterday told his dad to go and ask about a really efficient PHEV or full BEV to buy as a new car... the dealer he went to see ended up selling him a diesel, because it's ''economical''
Where do you think the most noise can be made to start EV's really spiking in their sales?
A blog we wrote earlier in the year relevant to the topic:
Electric cars are coming thick and fast... - Simply EV Charging Cables
Happy friday folks!
Conor