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To combat your anecdata: I have an ev, and a pile of solar, I charge at home on a standard plug that goes into a wall socket. I don’t use any grid power and my
by onethought 5y ago
To combat your anecdata: I have an ev, and a pile of solar, I charge at home on a standard plug that goes into a wall socket. I don’t use any grid power and my car stays charged. I don’t put any strain on the grid.
Pretty obvious how ev ownership will play out. More chargers, more pv.
- alias_neo 5y agoI'm not sure what "more pv" means here, apologies. I see your point, in your situation that's great, but I live in an Nth floor apartment in a London borough, I don't have an option for solar, nor for a wall socket to power an EV, nor do any of my neighbours. We're entirely at the mercy of Freeholders to consider putting EV charging in and _only_ charging us the price of a small motor vehicle for the privilege, if they'll do it at all. I suspect a significant percentage of the population, who like myself live in large cities or suburbs are in a similar position. Someone told me recently that a mandate is now in place for new-build to at least build infrastructure to support EV chargers in bays, even if they're not built ahead of time. Of course given the racket that is property development, they'll not put them in and charge you a pretty penny to add it after the fact.
- signaturefish 5y agopv == photovoltaics - rooftop solar panels, in this case.
- onethought 5y agoI would guess that charge stations in place of existing petrol/gas stations will become a thing, they will have very large solar installs. I think solar will find its way onto every surface we can get it on. Distributed power networks are much easier to deal with than centralised ones. You are right property developers are likely to shirk their responsibility here. But I think there will be a lot of charge Business popping up, doing deals with councils etc