Hydrogen23 Aug 2017 10:27
An interesting article in the Daily Mail this morning.
" If your thinking of driving an all electric car to Edinburgh , even if if you make it to a service station with high speed charging, you might still have to stop three or four times for an hour long charge on the way, plus of course certainly endure waiting for a charging point to be free. Electric cars still only make up 0.3% of the 31.7 million cars on the road.
There is also a massive shortage of charging points. If all cars were electric only, we would need an additional 400,000 public charging points, at a cost of £30 billion for all drivers who would need to refuel on journeys away from home. And this investment would be needed at a time when the government was losing the 27 billion a year it rakes in on tax on cars fossil fuels. On top of this, there would be utter chaos as the switch over to electric approaches , when pumps at petrol stations are being closed down due to falling demands for fossil fuels, just as their owners are having to lay out hundreds of thousands of pounds to install very expensive new electric charging points. If every car in Britain is eventually going to be all electric , where is all the massive amount of additional electricity needed to charge them to come from. It has been estimated that the amount of additional power needed from the grid would be 50% cent moire than we currently use at peak times a day. And half the electricity we already use is still generated from those fossil fuels the government wants to be eliminated.But now we are faced with the biggest fantasy of all, that we can be forced to give up cars powered by petrol and diesel, which are the most efficient user friendly form of personal transport ever devised to rely instead on electric cars for which there will often be no electricity" .
Just some of the points raised in the article
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