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Good morning Solar Steve.
My head is fine thanks.
Now you have openly showed your credentials I interpret now that your posts could be classed as spam.
What interest do you have in EUA?.
I also notice that you have corrected and considerably reduced your claim that 50% of all electricity was generated by solar panels
Anders - You’re right. The FiTs are all gone for solar now. You say ‘only a handful of early adopters benefitted’, but I’m afraid that simply isn’t true. There are hundreds of thousands of solar installs across the U.K.
In fact, the early residential adopters on the highest FiTs will see their money back in year 11-12. However, beciase the price of a solar install came down proportionally more than the FiTs did, a homeowner on a lower FiT also paid less for their system. This means they will see their money back in year 6/7.
Now the FiTs have gone, the economics of solar have changed again. Now, it is possible for solar to be profitable without a FiT at all. NESF & BSIF are both investing in new subsidy-free solar farms that are being built.
The same will happen with chargers. The costs of these products continually come down.
Service stations already have large car parks. Build solar carports over them all and you can install swathes of EV charging points and batteries. It’s an absolute doddle to do.
Solarsteve, no doubt you are genuine but your Calcs are wrong. It’s not one in 7. It’s 1/7 x the chance the next day is a trading day..hence the probs are much lower and hence the fact you did open an account on a Sunday much more dubious.
I wonder if B1ll is recovering with a sore head after his drinking last night and seeing he judged me as Lammy. My credentials are real my friends. I don’t hide. I run an international award winning solar O&M company. Feel free to look me up.
Everyone’s profile was new at some point and I have a 1/7 chance of my profile being set up on a Sunday. Not out of this world odds are they?!
Solar Steve,
It all sounds great, but the economics don’t stack up. The feeder tariff and grants have already dropped massively for solar, it was only a handful of early adopters that benefited the most.
Same will happen with EV charge points, while there are relatively few installations and a few early adopters there will be grants galore. As soon as mass adoption starts, the fundings drops because where are they going to fund it from?
As for charging at service stations, the charge might take 35 mins but the queue for a charger could be an hour? How many cars can fuel up at a petrol pump in the 35 mins it takes for an EV partial charge?
Service stations would need some large car parks with every space equipped with EV chargers to cope. And how much power will that lot take? They’ll need to run extra power lines to cope, who’s paying for all the infrastructure?
Wow, earned another 10p for that post.
Good luck on that £1.
Thanks solar Steve.
I do think that your comments will be taken in the same context as an avatar called 'veggi Dave' on a butcher's website though.
I suggest that maybe concentrate your posts on shares that relate more to re-newable energy related type stuff.
Gla
Electric cars can and already do work for many. There still seems to be concerns regarding mileage per charge, charger availability etc. Hopefully, I can allay some of these concerns a little here.
1. When looking at mileage/charge metrics, people often pull out the worst performers. However, the Hyundai Kona will do 250 real-life miles on a charge. That’s a pretty long way. Most people will only travel that far on their way to holiday destination. Drive a thirsty ICE vehicle and you’ll be stopping for fuel not too much further down the road from the EV.
2. People get hung up on charging times. Most batteries can have an extra 100 miles put into the battery in 35 mins these days. Time your next ‘standard’ stop at a service station to use the loo, grab a drink and re-fuel and combined, you’ll be about 30 mins. An extra 5 mins to have the ‘inconvenience’ of topping up your battery is neither here nor there.
3. The average journey to work is less than 20 miles. So to work and back, including the school or supermarket run is 60 miles, max. Then you are home to charge your battery again. So for an average daily user of a car, an EV will suit you fine. If you’re a sales rep razzing up and down the M6 all day, EV’s are not for you....yet.
4. The technology advances with each passing month. Batteries go further, charge quicker and become more efficient all the time. Progress is happening quickly. It took mankind centuries do develop a single car. In the less than 150 years since Karl Benz patented the first car, we are revolutionising how we will power them incredibly quickly.
Where do solar panels come in? Say the average EV battery has a range of 200 miles and the average commute is 20 miles. You leave work in the morning with a 100% charge in your battery, drive to work and have used 10%. If your place of work has solar panels in the roof, it is in their interest to get a charging point installed on site. There are grants galore for EV chargers. You can charge your car back up to 100% at your employers expense and drive to the supermarket. The big supermarket chains have growing solar capacity. Aldi and Sainsbury’s have huge solar portfolios already and Tesco have just launched a solar roll-out. You can top up your battery when you shop there, again, not costing you a penny.
You use 10% driving home and have done 60 miles on just 10% of charging the battery at your cost. You can then plug in your car and DISCHARGE your car battery DOWN, using your bosses and Aldi’s electricity to the 25% you need to get you to work in the morning. You actually only need 20%, but give yourself a 5% buffer.
Your solar panels on your house should have a battery these days and when this discharges, your home AUTOMATICALLY takes charge from your car battery to your solar battery and you power your home for FREE. Your car battery stops discharging at the % that you program it.
This is how to use an EV correctly and the tech to do this is there.