UK Wasting electricity with electric cars?

[Rockingit]

Also, it's 'fine' for suburbian estates and rural areas where houses have drives and places where you can actually install outdoor points (of whatever flavour) - go into the cities where it's row upon row of terraced house / apartments that exit straight onto busy streets and you're stuffed.

 

[telectrix]

Also, it's 'fine' for suburbian estates and rural areas where houses have drives and places where you can actually install outdoor points (of whatever flavour) - go into the cities where it's row upon row of terraced house / apartments that exit straight onto busy streets and you're stuffed.

esp if you're on the 12th floor of a tower block.

 

[pirate]

That's where those new cordless extension leads will come in handy

 

[Zerax]

Also, it's 'fine' for suburbian estates and rural areas where houses have drives and places where you can actually install outdoor points (of whatever flavour) - go into the cities where it's row upon row of terraced house / apartments that exit straight onto busy streets and you're stuffed.

They've already solved that one... with on-street chargers... https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/oct/05/electric-car-ways-to-charge

 

[stevethesparks]

Wait until the electric boilers kick in as well.
Another answer might be to have a standardised replaceable slide in battery system

 

[Zerax]

Having never owned an electric car , but how long would it hold a full charge for ...?

If you don't use it.. I'd guess at years... are you thinking of buying one and not using it ???

 

[Zerax]

Another answer might be to have a standardised replaceable slide in battery system

That's not needed anymore... fast charging would be almost as quick... and there are LTO chemistry cells now... that can charge in like 10 mins !... In any case... this whole range myth has now been largely busted.

 

[pc1966]

That's not needed anymore... fast charging would be almost as quick... and there are LTO chemistry cells now... that can charge in like 10 mins !... In any case... this whole range myth has now been largely busted.

It is not the range, it is the lack of charging for folk like myself in blocks of flats without designated parking places, etc.

A quick-change battery would allow a 5 min stop at a "petrol station" to get replenished, and also no worries about battery life/cost as that would be factored in to the cost of a "refuel".

Putting changers in lampposts is not going to be a great solution. Not just the cost to change cables, etc, but the percentage that can use them UK wide. Typically you can get 4 cars parked between posts but only 2 at most connected, and many streets have only posts on alternating sides, etc. It would cost far more to upgrade 10/20M lampposts UK-wide than to have 10k petrol stations upgraded.

 

[snowhead]

Another answer might be to have a standardised replaceable slide in battery system

They've got a drive through battery swop in China

 

[Rockingit]

They've already solved that one... with on-street chargers... https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/oct/05/electric-car-ways-to-charge

Not sure about that! The technology might exist, but the infrastructure still doesn't. Take the lampost idea, for example, that's roughly one point per every dozen cars down most streets. So that's 11 people unlucky and a fight about to break out. If the battle to find a parking space close to your home wasn't bad enough already, it's now been made twice as hard again. Also - who pay's for this??

Don't get me wrong - I'm ALL for striving towards zero carbon and pollution, I just don't think this is the way to do it. The sceptic in me just says this is yet another dodgy back-hander by the Govt.

Hydrogen cells - now THERE's an idea!