According to the National Travel Survey, average car occupancy is between 1.1-1.2 people depending which year is looked at.
That suggests an incredible number of cars are running with just 1 person in them.
Even with a number of kids and doing 240 mile trips with them to see family several times a year, our average car occupancy per mile is still likely to be fairly low.
Before anything else my wife does around 5,000 miles a year getting to and from work on her own, so even if the remaining 7,000 was all with the family that's still going to be much lower car occupancy rate than the size of our family.
Realistically (as there's a fair amount of other lone driving our an adult with one child) it's likely to be below below half our family size and we are likely unusualin that we do quite high milage with all the family in the car.
I've only driven an Automatic once and that felt very weird, my left foot wanted to press the brake pedal. I'd want to drive a manual if given the choice as that's easier for me
My feet were fine (but then I was used to resting my left foot when doing some decent lengths of driving without needing to change gears) it was the reaching for the gearstick which was the thing I did, but then that was the first step in changing gear - as I rarely has my hand on the gearstick unless changing gears.
The thing I find difficult is know if I'm in drive or reverse, so make a second check to confirm.
The other thing I need a bit more practice with is low speed control when on a steep slope and a tight space. However, that's quite an edge case and I just have to use the handbrake like I do in a manual.
Overall, I've found it and easy transition, and not much worse than between any of the manual cars that I've owned (and I've had a regularly driven car on average every 3 years - including my driving instructors car and two cars we kept for less that 1 year each, one was given to us whilst we then gifted our car to sibling and the other was a car which needed a new cam belt when the garage who sold it should have done that as part of the service they did - fortunately it didn't brake)
Supermarket chargers are not normally high popwer, you are only every going to use them to ‘top up’, rather than as a main charge.
I've used a Morrisons as a main charge once, but I only needed about 25kwh of battery charge and was stopping for dinner in their cafe. Although that was a 50kw charger.
My mum is up for it. It's my dad who's a stick in the mud. Though apparently he is coming round to the idea.
My parents moved to an EV before we did. Although, my Dad had Facebook before I did (he worked for an American company with strong university links and so got access to it before it was available to the general public in the UK) so has been fairly open to being an early adopter.
For example,he has had solar panels for a long time (as a teenager had a solar water heater on our house, and I've now got a kid about the age I was when that was installed and had PV panels almost as long as I've been married).
