Electric cars

[Frenchie]

I've just seen an article in the Guardian concerning rising electricity prices in the UK. Reasons given for the rises are a general global shortage of energy and the UK's ageing fossil and nuclear power stations. The fear is the system may not be able to cope with supply in a severe winter. So what happens when all the newly purchased electric cars arrive home after a day at work and are plugged in for their overnight charge. Not confident that the UK government have worked this out.

[Big Kas]

Originally Posted by Frenchie

I've just seen an article in the Guardian concerning rising electricity prices in the UK. Reasons given for the rises are a general global shortage of energy and the UK's ageing fossil and nuclear power stations. The fear is the system may not be able to cope with supply in a severe winter. So what happens when all the newly purchased electric cars arrive home after a day at work and are plugged in for their overnight charge. Not confident that the UK government have worked this out.

Unfortunately politicians are not engineers, or generally technically minded people at all. I believe the electric car hype is another bad idea which will bite us in the backside in about 10 years when there are millions of tonnes of old lithium batteries polluting our water.

It will hurt consumers because electricity which is currently cheap will become the new "oil" which we will depend on for transport.

And why oh why does no body consider where the electricity comes from in the first place? Do we really want to build another 10 nuclear power stations to charge everyones cars? And what do we do with all the nuclear waste it will generate?

Personally I think fossil fuels are the lesser of two evils here. With hydrogen the only realistic middle ground I can forsee.