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If you're looking for your next vehicle you might not see electric as a good option and one of the reasons will be the range. To a growing degree, we are seeing the effective use of electric vehicles increasing (albeit still in small numbers) as individuals and companies use them for short but regular journeys.
Since fully electric vehicles were launched, there has always been a chicken and egg position whereby huge infrastructure investment is difficult with only a small number of EV's on the roads. However, until the infrastructure is there, take up will be slow.
That's why it is fascinating to see that some countries are investing in a big way. When Nissan carried out an audit in Japan to count all of their electric charging points, they found that there are more than conventional petrol stations. If you count fast charging and home installed systems there are more than 40,000.
In the UK, support ranges from Government grants on the actual vehicle and the subsidised installation of home charging points through to useful mobile phone apps which can show you where the closest charging point is.
While fully electric vehicles are still quite niche in the UK, what we are seeing is a big increase in plug-in hybrids. Benefitting from this infrastructure but with the safety net of a petrol or diesel engine as a back-up they are on an upward curve which looks as though it will accelerate over the coming years.
Around the world, full or part electric vehicles are becoming normal. 5 years ago they were the sole domain of the early adopter, or forward thinking companies. That doesn't mean that other fuel types won't come through too (for example hydrogen) but growing demand will continue and so the charging network will grow and momentum will snowball.
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