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Yeah be perfectly fine for private use, but is totally impractical for business users. I suggest Boris goes spend a Friday afternoon anytime after 3pm on the M25, he might see a lot of business drivers. He'll be like, oh well, we can sort it, I'll get Hancock on to it.
The whole idea is stupid, the average life of a battery (so far) is 5 years. To replace a battery cost around £8K unless you rent it. Can you imagine telling someone they will have to pay £5K every five years to replace the engine in their car or keep paying every month to rent it
The whole idea is stupid, the average life of a battery (so far) is 5 years. To replace a battery cost around £8K unless you rent it. Can you imagine telling someone they will have to pay £5K every five years to replace the engine in their car or keep paying every month to rent it
They would completely have to change our culture, and make us use public transport that runs on electric, but again they've overlooked the infastructure. We've been spending the last few decades, building places like Bluewater, while tearing the heart out of our Town Centres. If you want people off the roads, then we need our Town Centres back.
There’s hundreds of charging points already in our motorway service station network and there’ll thousands more going in. The range of the latest EV’s can be 350-400 miles, I’m not sure a bladder has been invented that has that kind of range tbh. Stop at a services have a piss and a bite to eat, job done, you’d be filling up most ICE cars at that kind of range anyway.
They need to achieve a ratio of circa 1 charge point for every 10 EV’s in the coming years, that’s the target,
I'm guessing here, but surely you could charge your car at a charging station and it would have enough charge to get you home and back to another charging station when you need it ?
In the same way that you fill up with fuel to ensure that you've got enough to get home and to wherever you're going the next day.
That said, I have seen people with an extension reel coming out of their house, into a charging cable that's then plugged into their car. That will have loads of old biddies tripping over cables on the pavement though
The problem with that approach is we don’t have an electrical infrastructure to support it. The only way it works, IMO, is if the majority of charging is done at “off peak” times.
If we adopt Ern's plan and cull 3bn people then there shouldn't be such demand on the electrical grid
If we adopt Ern's plan and cull 3bn people then there shouldn't be such demand on the electrical grid
I’ll start a list!
It’d be rude not to put the founding father of this idea at the pinnacle of it.
You’re way out of date. VAG have put a guarantee on their batteries that after 8 years / 100,000 miles, they’ll still work at a minimum of 80% original capacity,The whole idea is stupid, the average life of a battery (so far) is 5 years. To replace a battery cost around £8K unless you rent it. Can you imagine telling someone they will have to pay £5K every five years to replace the engine in their car or keep paying every month to rent it
I do remember a lecture at university, given by a guy (can’t remember his name) who was a chief scientific advisor to the government, saying that providing sufficient food, as the global population rises, would be of greater concern than the potential lack of fossil fuels.
I don’t remember him advocating a cull, but certainly said that our eating habits, mainly around the food waste, would have to be addressed.
Get Ern on that one, swap your steak for a locust or you’re literally going to make man extinct .
I reckon he’d rather volunteer a few BN others (not him or his obvs) to be culled before he’d give up a single sausage though.
Power up the old coal fired power stations with them, double winIf we adopt Ern's plan and cull 3bn people then there shouldn't be such demand on the electrical grid
I think Ern might be an actual Nazi.
Do people that live in central London, which is presumably one of the few areas where people don’t have private parking areas, actually need a car close to their house? Presumably they only need the car when they are travelling outside the city. In which case why not go with park and ride schemes on the edges of the city where cars can be stored, charged and ready for the next trip to Cornwall. Similarly have spaces allocated to visitors who park there when visiting London and pick up their car on the way out. Move all car rental offices there as well.
You can fast charge up to about 80% in 30 mins, so on a long trip just stop at some services and have a coffee and a dump.
Rest of the time you can top up as you would with petrol at the nearest charging station - it's just a bit slower.
Batteries are rapidly improving too. When I looked into getting an electric car about 3 years ago the cheaper ones had ranges of about 100 to 150 miles and now that's more than doubled on some models.
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