Bought our first electric car this year and will never go back to Diesel. If heat pumps weren’t so expensive I’d have one installed tomorrow.

That's great news! I wish you would also see an increase in spending for public transit from cities. It's one of the cheapest ways you can help your most vulnerable while fighting climate change.

I’d love an electric car if I wasn’t living in a third world country.

I don’t have a way to charge them in my condo and the infrastructure outside of the main city here is almost 0 if not actually 0.

I was close to considering one until my wife and I took a trip about 5 hrs outside of the city and I realized that there would have been no way to drive there and back in the electric car.

I guess it would be possible, but I’d have to do a bunch of planning and calling around to secure a place to charge and it might not even be possible if the hotel or destination will not allow it.

Heat pumps rule!

We got a heat pump a few months ago and it is NICE! Sometimes I forget it's actually hot outside.

Worth every penny (and there were a lot of pennies)

Bought our first full BEV (we also have a plugin hybrid) a month ago, and we're replacing the 50 year old gas furnaces with heat pumps next week.

Might as well have some nice things before the world collapses.

more people buying newish stuff than they did earlier. shocking.

Can't talk of heatpumbs, but EVs are great. Been two years being an all EV family. I still don't see enough curb side opposition for people without drives. Home charging x10 cheaper than dino juice, but public chargers (80p per kWh), are basically the same cost. So without home charging, there is little to no cost saving. Which is not only unfair, but will slow EV adoption.

Some people still complain about slow charging on EVs. Most electric cars have no problem getting 3.5 miles per kWh. A standard UK wall plug can safely provide 13A, and while the voltage is notionally 230V it's actually more than that for most people, but even if we ignore that, 230V × 13A ≈ 3kW, so an overnight charge of, say, eight hours on a standard wall plug gives you 3kW × 8h × 3.5mi/kWh ≈ 84 miles of range for under £5 if you pay 25p/kWh. I've said it before; if you can afford an electric car, you can't afford not to have an one.

Space is the stinker, of course. A lot of people don't have a spot on their property they can park their car, but for those that do it's a no-brainer.

Also, heat pumps are basically magic. Why they're not mandatory on new-builds, I don't know.