Electric cars? one of the most stupid ideas ever in the realm of travel. Not only can’t do long distances and having to add power points to every home ,what about tower blocks? Not only that if an electric car breaks down forget about rescue services they are not allowed ,I undersand, to help at the moment. Then again the cost of a replacement battery anything from £10,000 up for a standard size car I read somewhere.
Electric Cars are like Bullets, you never hear the one that gets you. 
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Very true and most of the roads in my area are little more than country lanes and so many idiot cyclists riding in large packs come round the bends all over the road. They think because they can’t hear an approaching vehicle it means there’s nothing there. Oops! another bonnet ornament.
Just about every town and city in England tells exactly the same story Bruce. Empty deserted high streets…
My turbo diesel doesn’t have a DPF so it has never been a problem but if It had one I do enough long trips to burn it clean.
What has also added to the problem that paying for parking has caused with deserted high streets, is the out of town retail parks. Free parking and all the big, well-known stores are there. Why go to the town centres and pay, up to £8 a day here, when it’s just a car ride out of town for the same facilities. Also it’s this that has totally finished off the small, independent shops though. The supermarkets arriving started it, the parking costs then just about finished off small shops. Only in small towns and villages do you get the smaller shops, which is a shame really as it stops the choice that these shops often offer.
What’s a CBD?
Exactly. I think there are going to be some very disappointed, or even shocked, new car buyers who have invested their hard-earned money in one of those contraptions.
I’m hoping that it’s just going to be another trendy idea that will fizzle out in a few years as people begin to realise their mistakes.
Yes, a bonus. An incentive for self-centred cyclists to begin to realise that they are not the only people on the roads.
They may think because they are unidentifiable they are above the law. I think that many of them need to realise that that does not make them immune to injury.
Maybe a Central Business District, at a guess? 
I wonder whether any local councils have yet realised the reason for that is their high business rates and lack of free/cheap parking.
How to shoot yourself in the foot!
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If I could legally remove the DPF, I’d buy a diesel again.
(I’ve just had an automatic warning that I have posted far too many replies all at once, so I’d better stop now!)
This has nothing to do with electric cars but my brother mentioned to me that our Shopping Malls are completely different to the ones in the UK. Ours tend to be in the centre of the shopping district rather than the way they are in the UK which I understand to be, as you alluded to, out of town or on industrial estates. Here the Mall’s peripheral shops tend to be banks, restaurants or coffee shops.
Parking fees only exist in capital cities even in Wollongong the parking fees only extent for a couple of blocks.
This is quite an interesting blog about a bloke who took his electric car 10000km across Australia towing a camper similar to mine. It can be done. Well worth reading.
Yes as pointed out CBD means Central Business District - where the shops and offices are
The out of town retail parks here have free parking, that’s partly why the town centres are dying off. People prefer to travel to the out of town retail parks as there is no extortionate car park charging, like there is in the town centres.
Thanks for that link, I will have a read of that later. Other than the electric car a blog on that kind of travel sounds very similar to your own, which incidentally I have read and found very interesting so thanks also for that.
To be honest I had to look that up as personally I’ve never heard that one used before.
Folks here like out of town shopping, it is far more picturesque sitting in the traffic jam there, just imagine, if all the folks had a Bicycle. 
Or even an electric scooter! The roads around here are becoming awash with young kids and adults flying around in the road and on pavements with these highly dangerous new “toys”
It’s the same here, they are used for transport from one village to the next. Driving along on country lanes and there in front is some ‘idiot’ whizzing along, standing on one of those machines. No high viz, nothing of a light colour to make for easier visibility against the dark colours of hedges and trees. Worst of all no crash helmet either! One of those saved my life in a motorcycle accident many years’ ago, hence this comment.
Yes, it is strange, in L.A, they all wear helmets.
Sensible to wear crash helmets, in my experience anyway. However, look at the four of them all in very dark clothing without anything light or high viz. How on earth do they expect to be seen? Basically they appear, if even seen, to any car driver as a thin, dark vertical shape! 