Campaigning with electric cars.

I think the people in that article represent both extremes, heavily pro EV and heavily anti EV but with nobody supporting the middle ground where the realistic and sensible conclusions, as is so often the case, fall. In my view electric cars will not replace fossil fuel vehicles before 2050. For local and short/medium journeys they will probably become the norm unless some other technology is developed. We will still need fossil fuel vehicles for those carrying loads or travelling long distances.

I seem to recall that people used to take their dinghies to Championships by train ...

The rail infrastructure just doesn't exist any more for that to be practical. Its not just that there aren't the lines, but the hundreds of thousands of general purpose freight wagons are gone, and so are all the local freight handling facilities. Apart from bulk freight between a limited number of hub points rail freight is largely limited to what one person can carry through one door.

This is where Turnturtles proffessional club set up would work, you only need to get there.