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Most European countries will be working towards a ban around the same time, or shortly after. So there won't be a ready supply of such vehicles for Ireland to i

Most European countries will be working towards a ban around the same time, or shortly after. So there won't be a ready supply of such vehicles for Ireland to import. Besides, given the economic advantages of electric (especially if petrol taxes are gradually ramped up to discourage their use), there won't be much demand for combustion technology past 2030 anyway, except amongst vintage enthusiasts.

badpun 7y ago
Don’t we need to like more than double our current level of power production (+capacity of the power network) to be able to ditch ice cars? I wonder how more than doubling of the number of power plants is supposed to get funded. Is there some proposal that is grounded in technical and economical realities?
- Reason077 7y ago
  No. In the UK it's around a 30% increase on current electricity demand by 2050 for a near-100% EV vehicle fleet. But as a significant portion of EV charging can be done off-peak/overnight, in terms of new generation capacity it's even less. This is something that has been studied in some depth by the UK's national grid: https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dreams-future-evs https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dre... https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-predicted-no-sweat-says-national-grid/ https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-pr...
- vetinari 7y ago
  We also need to significantly upgrade transmission and distribution. That might be even more capital intensive, than building new production capacity.
patrickk 7y ago
Not to mention the supply of cars will be limited to RHD vehicles. Britain is the only nearby car market[1] with RHD cars. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic#/media/File:Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic#/...

badpun 7y ago

Don’t we need to like more than double our current level of power production (+capacity of the power network) to be able to ditch ice cars? I wonder how more than doubling of the number of power plants is supposed to get funded. Is there some proposal that is grounded in technical and economical realities?

Reason077 7y ago
No. In the UK it's around a 30% increase on current electricity demand by 2050 for a near-100% EV vehicle fleet. But as a significant portion of EV charging can be done off-peak/overnight, in terms of new generation capacity it's even less. This is something that has been studied in some depth by the UK's national grid: https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dreams-future-evs https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dre... https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-predicted-no-sweat-says-national-grid/ https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-pr...
vetinari 7y ago
We also need to significantly upgrade transmission and distribution. That might be even more capital intensive, than building new production capacity.

patrickk 7y ago

Not to mention the supply of cars will be limited to RHD vehicles. Britain is the only nearby car market[1] with RHD cars. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic#/media/File:Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic#/...