[StuBeeDoo]

I was planning on buying an EV for my wife, as she rarely travels more than 20 miles from home - and usually a lot less than that.

We live in a 120-year-old cottage, right in the middle of a terrace of 16.
Problem no.1.......  Our garage is detached, roughly 30mtrs from the back of the property.  It has electricity to it, but just a simple spur off the kitchen ring main.  Not completely insurmountable.
Problem no.2.......  The electricity supply to the terrace is "looped", and our property (and, I suspect, all the others) only has a 60amp main fuse.  Our distribution network operator will provide individual supply to each house with the minimum requirement 100amp main fuse, but the whole terrace would have to be done at a cost of "upwards of £5000 per property".  Do you think all my neighbours are going to want to shell-out £5k just so my wife can conveniently charge her EV at home?..........

We won't be having an EV in our lifetime, then.

From my point of view, I don't travel by car very much these days, but when I do it's usually a minimum 300 mile round trip.  So, until EV range is reliably over 400 miles, an awayday or holiday would be a PITA to organise around available, working, charge points.

At least with our diesels we have range upwards of 450 miles, and when we need to refuel we know (at the time of writing.......) we're never very far from a pump.