So I frequently drive N Wales to Aberdeen (trains and planes don't quite do it as I still need transport at both ends) 460 miles each way. So on a wet cold winter's night, everything switched on what's the best range I will get out of an EV - it's not 460 miles for sure!!
So assume that we all go electric. (I have previously owned an BMW i3 REX
If you watch the activity at a reasonably busy fuel station you see cars taking 3 to 5 minutes to fill up. Then next car in line. Roughly 2 cars per 10 minutes.
In 2018 cars, in UK covered around 328 Billion miles........
My little i3 ran at around 27KwH per 100 miles. If we all suddenly went electric then we would need around another 88,000 GwH electricity in our grid system.
The UK uses around 356,000 GwH electricity currently so we would need around another 25% electrical capacity and supply capacity in our network.
It's the supply to the charging points and the peak demand that are missing. And will take years to fix!!
Solution: sodding great V8 until the fuel runs out!
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