RE: SP move5 Feb 2020 07:34
I was holding court in the pub last night, my turn on the soapbox. The talk was buying battery cars. All of the guys sat at the table were my old work colleagues, so ex electricity board. I asked them this. “ With our collective knowledge do you see 50% of car parking spaces and shopping centres and multi stories, stations, motorway services and domestic properties having charge points within 15 years”?
The low voltage network will not take the additional load. Charging takes too long. We already have load problems around early evening without having vehicle charging added. I cannot imagine working on a cable fault in the middle of the night and having to pick up load on an open network with hundreds of cars all waiting on their chargers to take 30amps plus. There isn’t enough staff to be able to deliver the installation work along with existing network requirements. The countries road networks will be littered with cars that have “run out of power” on dark rainy cold nights. The breakdown services will need built in 25kva generation. Hydrogen will be the most viable option. Electric charging is a political knee jerk reaction. Not be long before the govt. are banging the hydrogen drum. Then watch the share price!