A heavy car charge

SIR – Vehicles with internal combustion engines are soon to be unavailable as we are all forced to switch to electric vehicles.

Looking out of my window, I see cars parked on driveways outside houses that have no electricity outlet suitable for a car. I see cars kept in allocated parking spaces some distance from their property and from any possible outlet, and cars parked at the roadside away from the owner’s home, alongside a pavement that must remain unobstructed for walkers, pushchairs and wheelchairs.

Prices of electric vehicles are much higher than conventional models, and the battery needs replacing every three to five years. The cost of installing a three-phase electricity socket for all these off-street and on-street parking spaces will run to several thousand pounds apiece.

Who will pay? I know I couldn’t.

Sue Doughty

Reading , Berkshire

SIR – The Transport Secretary wants every new home, office and lamppost to be fitted with an electric vehicle charging point; but where will the nuclear power stations be built to power those charging points? Captain John Maioha Stewart (retd) Breisach am Rhein, Germany