From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
From The Times:
Electric car charging points in people’s homes will be preset to switch off for nine hours each weekday at times of peak demand because ministers fear blackouts on the National Grid.
Under regulations that will come into force in May, new chargers in the home and workplace will be automatically set not to function from 8am to 11am and 4pm to 10pm. Public chargers and rapid chargers, on motorways and A-roads, will be exempt.
The government is also taking powers to impose a “randomised delay” of up to 30 minutes at other times to avoid pressure on the grid if there is a scramble among motorists to recharge their batteries at the same time.
There are only 300,000 battery electric vehicles (EVs) on the UK’s roads.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e-car-chargers-will-turn-off-to-prevent-blackouts-jnm2m86pz
We have long been assured that EVs would not cause problems for the grid, because most of the charging would take place at night when there is spare capacity. As many of us could have told them, most drivers would simply plug in as soon as they got home.
Now the government has woken up to this reality.
Charging between 10pm and 8am may be OK for some, but what about shift workers?
This new regulation is a clear admission that government is now seriously concerned about grid capacity and blackouts. I suspect there will be many more measures to come designed to ration electricity.
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The REAL accessory all EV owners will need is a big old diesel powered generator, with auto-starting and quiet operation mode, running in your back yard, with a short and very stout, anti-theft power cable running into your garage to charge your own damn vehicle without the participation of any collective, and no smart meter in the way, of course with a decent sized, hidden, anti-theft, anti siphon, underground fuel tank that can be filled by a discreet street visit from a fueling truck. Aren’t cars that run on free energy great?
(is this /sarc? Can a double dumb-ass even tell?)
A bottle neck of daytime EV charging between 11am and 4pm when grid demand is high, is asking for trouble.
They will get an early test of shortages this winter amid NG market issues because they are building a tax incentive-based system that assumes continuous wind. Bring it on.
Not to worry, a little volatility is good for you…….
Blame the volatility on climate change!
Wholesale Electricity Prices – Energy Price Charts and Graphs (catalyst-commercial.co.uk)
Has anyone ever doubted why Smart Meters were installed? No, it wasn’t get rid of meter readers, …it was to enable rationing of electricity. These guys have been thinking ahead for a long time.
This will form the backdoor reason for a 4-day workweek.
“ministers fear blackouts on the National Grid.”
Haven’t we been told over and over right here (no names) that this simply isn’t going to happen, and that it’s not a problem?
Problem: intermittent/renewables, low-density energy reserves. Solution: trickle charge. It’s not the quality,but sustainability. Think of the climate!
Will the EV firetruck make it to the EV battery fire? I guess it will since those fires are allowed to burn themselves out anyway.
Eventually, we will get to toilets that will turn off to prevent droughts
You came up with a most evil and plausible scenario. Something the people at WUWT are good at.
Now stop giving them ideas.
Imagine using EVs as emergency vehicles. Recharging and upkeep of EV fire trucks, ambulances, police cars, tow trucks, water rescue boats and wreck removers would be a nightmare.
New excuse for not going to work without taking a sicky .
My ev had a flat battery and I couldn’t recharge it .
If the government can tell you when you can charge your EV, what about the rest of your electricity use. Can they tell you when to use your heat (in the UK, AC in the US). How about your washing machine, or even your lights.
It is indeed, as someone said above, the camel’s nose in the tent. The time to protest and sue and stop it is now. Five years from now it will be too late.
You already can’t buy some of the top gaming PCs in some states
Yes. Khrushchev is laughing in his grave.
Here are some possible scenarios for the near term:
1) The faster EV adoption/rollout rate in the EU sets them up for a failure in the coming winter energy price mash up. This is turn gives caution to US buyers watching the debacle.
2) This is basically a larger version of scenario 1 with more EV penetration and more wind power dependence in the UK, more energy market pressure, and deeper chaos in the black swan events for the grid and the workplace.
Do they even know that a wall “car charger” is not a thing?
It’s just a plug!!!!!
Morons.
Most of them do have a wall mounted component but all still require either a grounded 120v supply or a grounded 240v similar to the electric dryer socket
https://wallbox.com/en_us/pulsar-plus-40a?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=40a&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkIGKBhCxARIsAINMioJZJNiG_2p6EdzhcNK1An_VBHCSgKf2QWMqipvh4M-NJbaHyKwiQ1UaAgZnEALw_wcB
Welcome to the Brave New World, control over everything you see, say, smell, or do.
Capitalism leads to unequal distribution of abundance. Socialism leads to equal (to the plebs) rationing of shortages. The rich, under any system, have the political and economic power to insulate themselves.
The moral of the story? Strive to get rich; don’t rely on the government to insulate you from the vicissitudes of life. No socialist government has ever been able to keep people from being poor, nor make average people rich. [Other than the few political insiders.]
The governments distort the electric market then screw the little guy to pay for it. It takes a reliable, inexpensive necessary product and turns it into a unreliable, expensive still-necessary product that doesn’t serve the needs and wants of ordinary consumers.
Explain again why Henry Ford’s T-Model car with internal combustion (gas/petrol) engine quickly ended the market acceptance of EV at that time.
What has changed since, ICEV remains well priced, offers acceptable real range and refuels quickly, a driver can even carry spare fuel in cans.
What really ended the era of the electric car, was the electric starter motor.
Owners of EVs will never be able to know if their vehicle will receive the full charge they expect because of the increasing need to coordinate the large flow of energy recharging demands with the supply grid. This will call the usability of EVs in an emergency into question. To plan on escaping a wide scale disaster like an approaching hurricane using an EV may be a death trap.
Not just emergencies. You will never know the night before if you there is going to be enough charge in your battery to get you to work in the morning.