RE: Electric Cars & Solar Panels29 Dec 2019 21:06
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?