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Yes, that's what gave me the idea. However, aren't home-chargers slower chargers?

Would it be a good idea if there was an Airbnb like renting facility for home-chargers? Whilst you're at work, people can visit your home, assuming there's convenient parking, and use your home charger. It would alleviate the problem of infrastructure roll-out and range anxiety if there's far more chargers available. Your neighbours might even get friendlier. The problems that might occur include if you want to use it yourself and someone wants to hog it.

It's seems we're being given little choice except to buy a BEV or stick with ICE cars we already own. I see no mention of upgrading the grid to cope. UK scientists have even gone to the extraordinary length of denouncing the Toyota Mirai as the official car of the Olympics in France, claiming that the hydrogen they use when and if we buy them will come from fossil fuels.

Or perhaps it's got enough ethanol to cause as much damage anyway.

The Telegraph now reports Audi is scaling back EV production due to lack of demand. I believe Volkswagen have already done so. Battery technology is just not good enough. Nio's battery swapping may solve the brick problem when the battery fails to accept charge after a decade depending on what contract you have with them as well as the issue of queues at charging points and if you can buy a plug-in Nio, it might offset the issue of being tied to a monopoly supplier of batteries. You'd also have to ensure it has LiFePo4 so that it doesn't burn down your garage. However, there's still the issue of batteries needing to be warmed up when cold and cooled down when hot, though that's only a major issue if it won't accept charge when it's cold. The only remaining issue is the weight, with some concern whether multi-storey car-parks can take it.

I've found Toyota are better than Lexus. Lexus seem to see you as an open wallet.

While Jamie Lee Curtis raves about her Honda Clarity HFC, Rowan Atkinson says he feels duped for buying a battery car.

Actually, I was thinking it would put the cat amongst the pigeons and force utility companies to offer cheaper electricity tariffs.

Here's a thought! What if your hydrogen fuel cell car comes with a 13 amp socket and hydrogen is cheaper than your electricity tariff?

Le Mans will accept hydrogen cars by 2026 apparently. So they seem to believe that's where we're headed. Anyone daft enough to buy a Tesla will be seething, especially when the battery won't accept charge any more, which is likely to be very soon.

Nope! The worst I've ever seen is a semi-truck tyre explode on the motorway.

Well, since you ask, I've owned a hydrogen fuel cell for the last 450 years and it still works as new.

. . . and isn't the model 3 the one with the smallest battery?

Wow! And the guy rushed back in with a carton of . . . . water? Doesn't lithium react violently with water? When Teslas spontaneously combust, it takes HUGE amounts of water to douse the flames.

Well at least you've disproved the propaganda claiming hydrogen is difficult to store or transport. But I knew that anyway. Hydrogen was part of the town-gas decades ago transported via the gas grid.