Reply To: At the mercy of a lithium battery..

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Donkey Oatie

    To make using EV cars on long distances you would need a lot of charging capacity. You don’t want to be sitting in a queue for 2 hours to plug your car in. So say a minimum of 300 car parking spaces in a motorway services with rapid chargers @ 50 KW each is 15ooo KW. per hour. Now if average energy consumption of electricity for a UK home is 3760KW per year (Ovo energy figures) that means by my calculations that at a maximum one service station would require same power supply as 35000 houses. Even if you only used 10% of that you would have to install supply equivalent to a medium sized village to each service station. The infrastructure costs would be huge. I am not saying that EV is a bad thing just that we need to go into the total implications of our choices.

    Also if lithium batteries are used for household storage I hope we build safe fireproof containers to house them as at best they are slightly unstable but when part worn they can be unpredictable.