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I reckon Electric Cars will become a Marmite choice in the future, a bit like LPG turned out. Suitable and praiseworthy for some, but completely impractical for many others. Street parking makes up about 80% of the households around here, and so having Electric Cars will either mean extension leads trailing across the footpaths or Street Charging points, and given our Council can't even fix pot holes and keep the existing street lights working i'm wondering how they or the Highways dept are going to fit, maintain and annually safety test thousands of lamp-post mounted public chargers?.
I also wonder about the infrastructure, after all at least two large bus companies are already having to hire in and run Diesel generators to charge up their Buses overnight as the local supply can't cope with the demand, so how will it cope with several million new Electric Cars?.
When you consider a 100kw fast charger uses as much current as a medium sized factory, and conventional large petrol station forecourts will need 12 of these on one site if they replace petrol pumps like for like, then each petrol station will require the supply of an industrial estate!, so when are the power stations going to be built in every large town and city to supply this kind of demand? because the current substations and incomers will not be able to cope with the 120,000kw required by a single petrol station with 12 fast chargers in use, which will occur consistently during a Weekend, or bank holiday or when the Schools break up in summer for the big holiday get-away!.
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