They're only banning SALES in 15 years.
its realism, understanding the scale of the problems. Car companies are not going to be building power stations and upgrading national grid and local electric distribution.
We’re going to move to predominantly hydrogen not electricity.
its realism, understanding the scale of the problems. as posted:
car companies are not going to be building power stations and upgrading national grid and local electric distribution.
Lot of petrol/diesel cars will be sold in 2034..........Probably worth buying a few and registering them for sale from 2035 onwards.
Lamppost charging is the way forward
https://www.driving.co.uk/news/lamp-post-powered-electric-car-charging-points-arrive-london/
Funny that the National Grid don't share your concerns, do you know something that they don't?!
https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-predicted-no-sweat-says-national-grid/
I drive a fairly big, old(ish) diesel Nissan X trail. I would welcome an affordable, reliable alternative to fossil fuels but what? Use bio fuel and people say under developed countries will starve as the price of plants used in the making of these will be more than food crops. Is it financially viable to pursue other routes like electric and hydrogen without the infrastructure in place?
How quickly can technology be released to the masses without breaking the bank?
There will be no cheap way to do this and it will piss people off whatever way they go.
Get the bus?
The big ‘energy’ companies (those formally called Oil&Gas). Are going to invest well in excess of $100bn in the next decade in Ammonia plants to allow them to move hydrogen across the globe (I don’t think h2 can’t be economically liquified like natural gas), then we’ll have localised ammonia plant converting to hydrogen for you car. Also Our gas boilers supposedly can run on 20% hydrogen so soon this will be added to the gas network, once the tests are completed up in Cheshire, thus reducing our carbon footprint. The best thing is that we (the UK) with our renewable (wind) energy capability can kept the turbines going at night and use the ‘free’ electricity to create hydrogen overnight - so a win win situation.
VW reckon that 97% of the materials in EV batteries are recyclable for the manufacture of new batteries. Mind you VW are hardly the Holy Bible when it comes to environmental statements.
I wonder if Heavy goods vehicles/Tractors etc will also be electric.
i know there are about 38million vehicles, that article profess they can cope with 9 million. if they know 8GW of power is coming online thats great, hopefully they'll know where the other 30GW odd is too. not for the car company to solve either way.
point being made is its not a problem for the car companies, they can and are making changes. its the infrastructure thats the problem. and its a simple problem too, add lots of power, uprate peoples supply. its the cost and time to do this thats being overlooked.
similar issues apply to hydrogen too, fan of that, just technical issues need to be solved.
... As the article suggested (and which you overlooked) the 8GW is likely to become 4GW according to the National Grids forecasts.
Yes comrade.
Can you not afford one?
Hence the bitterness?