Scottyboi
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Nothing cheap about Volvo these days well expensive.
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Electric cars
- Thread starter kinkyblue
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Nothing cheap about Volvo these days well expensive.
bluethrunthru
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The ORA CAT
Tuearts right boot
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The Chinese are coming.
Was talking to a client of ours and he sold his Electric Golf and bough a similar MG estate. £10k cheaper, 7 yr warranty, better spec and he reckons a much better car all round.
salfordbluetrue
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Most old people i talk to as they approach retirement look at Electric cars as their last car expensive to buy but cheap to run, doing enough miles per day to cope with their reduced lifestyle, and capable of outliving their driving licence. Are the Government doing enough to support this market?
metalblue
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The UK's power distribution network is already creaking under the increased demands of consumers in recent years - apart from most of London of course where there has been and continues to be massive investment. I reckon If you suddenly start to add millions of vehicles wanting electricity at the same time as current demand is highest I.e. when people get home from work/school in the evening you're going to run into issues in supply very quickly. So a big part of the cost will be to improve the UK power network. I would think that 16.7bn is very conservative.In that article, I read this.
We’re going to need 1.7 MILLION by the end of the decade and 2.8 MILLION by 2035, at an estimated cost of £16.7BILLION, say industry experts. And we’re going to need millions of cheap EVs that everyone can afford.
Why is it going to cost 16.7bn, that seems to be a hell of a lot to connect some electricity points around the country.
Worzel Gummidge#9
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bought the new CH-R hybrid. Very fuel efficient, and bought it due to lack of EV points. Theres simply not enough to be shared, esp here in Rotterdam.
I worked in Rotterdam for a while, loved the place and people!
Fair point, if you are including new power stations which we undoubtedly also need it will be far higher again :)The UK's power distribution network is already creaking under the increased demands of consumers in recent years - apart from most of London of course where there has been and continues to be massive investment. I reckon If you suddenly start to add millions of vehicles wanting electricity at the same time as current demand is highest I.e. when people get home from work/school in the evening you're going to run into issues in supply very quickly. So a big part of the cost will be to improve the UK power network. I would think that 16.7bn is very conservative.
Maybe we really need to focus engineering solutions much more on medium to longer term solutions, like hydrogen fuel cells or some other renewable energy vehicles. EV vehicles alone simply cannot be the only solution. Easy to say I suppose.