People also seem to think that Electric vehicles run on Pixie Dust. Britain is already experiencing signs of the Energy Gap forecast well over 10 years ago. We’re retiring Coal, Gas and Nuclear Power Stations without have sufficient replacement Stations ready to go on line and cover the reduction in available electricity. Wind and Solar don’t come close to covering additional demand.
In 2015 there were roughly 58,000 electric vehicles registered in the UK. By the end of last month there were c.230,000 electric vehicles registered in the UK. The Government is pushing for 50% – to 70% of all new cars being electric by 2030. Boris is funding another 1,000 Charging Points for the whole of the UK.
Well ‘Whoop-di-do’.
Mining rare metals for the construction of car batteries is going to be a political Hot Potato, plus there’s still no real solution to what we’re going to do with the glut of Lithium batteries expected in the near future. There are currently over 2 million Electric Vehicles on the roads Globally, but the demand for reusing old batteries is still minuscule by comparison.