RE: Electric Cars/vans autos8 Apr 2019 06:29
Looking through my gas and electric bills my kw used was 7x more gas than electric. My car use would be equivalent to 1x my domestic electric. So we need the grid to produce and distribute 8x current demand to reach the green dream.
As less than half electric is renewable or nuclear, then we would need 16x current production!
The distribution network would need fatter cables, bigger transformers.., maybe not 8x as it would be 24 hour demand rather than peak surges.
The alternative plan might be demolish all housing stock, and build carbon neutral houses with huge cost and then the demolition and waste of 30m homes. Building 30m homes on green field or brown field sites? The energy needed to make all those products and ... oil needed to make insulation materials...
it’s not going to happen! We can’t house our people now. We can’t afford to care for our elderly.