The Government recently announced the Plug-In Car Grant which provides a £5,000 incentive for motorists to buy ultra-low carbon cars. In addition to this a £30m fund has been set up to create Plugged-in Places initially at London, Milton Keynes and the North East, with plans to install 11,000 recharging points over the next three years.
There are three capacity issues that the Government needs to plan carefully.
1.Re-charging – it takes about 15-20 minutes to recharge an electric vehicle to 80% capacity. That’s a lot of time waiting to charge your vehicle if you are out and about, so this means that there will have to be electric car “waiting areas” – the question is where as capacity increases?
Author: Robert Wastell, Director at Comparecontracthire.com
GrumpyOldMen - 29/04/2010 16:56
(3)No we haven't. OFWAT are already forecasting power cuts by 2015(?) and that's before we add any electric vehicles. Don't know where emap offices are but if you haven't got a generator installed yet you should get one. Means burning diesel to generate electricity but...oh dear, it's all gone a bit Top Gear. We are becoming Golgafrinchans.