Why ultra-light urban vehicles offer the only viable future for EVs
We have a Volkswagen e-Up, and I&#x27;m convinced it&#x27;s the perfect EV. It&#x27;s small and light(about 1000kg total), but not so small to be impractical - it fits a full size baby seat and a full size pram, I&#x27;ve done Costco and DIY store runs with it, it carried planks of wood and bags of soil....like any normal car would. Yes the 150 mile range is not going to win any contests, but you know what - I&#x27;ve literally never been close to running out. I can do the school run in the morning, commute to work, go shopping, go see friends, and still only need to charge it every few days at most - and when I do i just plug it in at home and it charges overnight, ready and fully charged by the morning. And it does 5-6 miles per kWh which is insane, it beats even the most optimistic numbers on a Tesla. And full charge costs me £2.5 at home - about the same as two litres of petrol.<p>Would I do a cross country trip in one of these? Obviously not(although you could, it does support CCS rapid charging), but if I had to....I&#x27;d just rent a different car to do that in for few days? Seriously the need for that comes up maybe twice a year for me - so why would I need a massive 2.5 tonne EV with a 100kWh battery , like every other manufacturer seems to be so keen on delivering as their EV solution?<p>Obviously, before someone replies &quot;well this wouldn&#x27;t work for me&quot; - yes I know. But I&#x27;d wager that for an awful lot of people this exact kind of car would work perfectly fine.