I now that a lot has been said, and no doubt there is a lot more to be said regarding Electric Vehicles, but what amazes me is that no one seems to look at the problems that will arise regarding the charging of these vehicles, most domestic electric supplies have a limit of about 3KW, yet you will need about 11KW to charge some of these EV's, if you slow charge them from q domestic supply,(normal 13amp) it will take about 17 hours to charge them, there are grants available to have the correct equipment installed at your home, as long as you have off street parking about 6% of house have this, so how are the other 94% of households going to charge their vehicles.
The other thing is of course is, who would buy a house where you can't even charge your EV, so a lot of house prices are going to come down, as no one will want them, I assume as diesel and petrol cars are to be banned hybrids will be banned too.
And finally where is all this electricity coming from to charge all these vehicles, most will be charged overnight, so solar panels wont be much use.
And the final question has to be what is the point, will this sacred isle make any difference in the grand scale of things, I doubt it, and will we ban any vehicle coming into the country, tourists, HGV,s etc that are not EV's.
The only good thing about this is that eventually going into London you wont be hit by a big charge as all EV's will be pollution free, so what will replace the money Kenghis Knan is getting at the moment, I am sure they will come up with something, as well as the Govt to recoup the revenue lost on petrol and diesel sale.
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