Electric cars

Any Octopus users out they I would recommend their Electric Juice RF card which gives access to multiple charging providers. Use the RF card to charge, payment against your Octopus account and avoids having to use multiple apps/cards. Also their charging map/app is very good.

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rowarta said:
Any Octopus users out they I would recommend their Electric Juice RF card which gives access to multiple charging providers. Use the RF card to charge, payment against your Octopus account and avoids having to use multiple apps/cards. Also their charging map/app is very good.

Electric Juice Network

One-tap access to 117,472 EV chargers across the UK & Europe
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The question with EVs is how the energy is generated and supplied to the batteries?
The cost of mining the materials for the batteries is another factor.
Every time you convert one form of energy to another, around 10% is lost.
So to burn coal or gas to produce electricity immediately wastes 10% of that original form of energy.
If we are serious about EVs we need to be taking the bull by the horns and using nuclear energy to provide electricity for them.
In the end we will be forced into it.
 
Grassland Blue said:
The question with EVs is how the energy is generated and supplied to the batteries?
The cost of mining the materials for the batteries is another factor.
Every time you convert one form of energy to another, around 10% is lost.
So to burn coal or gas to produce electricity immediately wastes 10% of that original form of energy.
If we are serious about EVs we need to be taking the bull by the horns and using nuclear energy to provide electricity for them.
In the end we will be forced into it.
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Precisely.

EV's using current battery technology, charged from the grid is only ever going to be an interim solution, and I can't see the technology being around any more than 10-15 years.
 
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