Hi All

This is a quote from the "Science Focus" magazine

"Today we have around 20,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK. By 2020, it’s estimated that there will be one million EVs in use, which will need 100,000 charging points. There are around 35 million cars in the UK, so if we replaced every one with an electric equivalent, we could need as many as three million charging points. The slower EV chargers currently require around 3kW of power, while rapid chargers range from 7kW to 350kW.

If we replaced all cars with an electric equivalent, it’s estimated we would need an additional 18GW of power. The new £20bn Hinkley nuclear power station in Somerset will produce 3.2GW once it opens in 2025 – so we may need another six of these to meet demand"

Any opinions on this?

Seems the Government may be giving our future generation of drivers one big headache. The politicians making these decisions now will not be around in 40 years to clear up their mess

The big question of the day will not be Brexit (minor detail in comparison) but how are we going to dispose of the 60 / 100 million EV batteries sitting in recycle plants that are to expensive to recycle

UKAT