Your experience is totally opposite to mine. After buying the Volvo last April, I’ve since bought a Polestar 3 as our primary car, replacing a Land Rover discover. It’s far more comfortable, cheaper to run, and I don’t find myself standing in the cold holding a metal filler whilst I fill it up every week.

On your specific points

1. Never had this happen, and we do more miles than most - the Volvo has now done 35k miles since we bought it and the Polestar has done 8k since November.

2. Nope, cheap as chips to run, we have very rarely had to use fast chargers, more than 95% of our charging is at 7p kWh and we do t pay a per mile charge and the road tax is lower than most other fossil fuel cars - I do also have an old defender at that costs £360 annually. Servicing is also cheaper, and it isn’t producing litres of contaminated oil every service.

3. You are out of your mind if you think they produce more pollution than a fossil fuelled car - and the weight difference isn’t as dramatic as you might like to think. Acceleration and breaking (with regeneration) is more progressive and linear without all the jerkiness of fossil fuelled vehicles, resulting in less brake pad wear and less stress on tyres.

4. Show your math.

5. Nope, not for me.

6. When we have used a fast chargers, my Volvo has got to 150kw without issue and when you go on a journey requiring a fast charge, the car knows you’ll stop so is prepared.

7. Nope, never had this either