From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
A few weeks ago, the government announced plans for new regulations, requiring domestic electric car chargers be programmed only to work at off peak times.
This was clear admission that car charging would simply overload the grid, if drivers charged up during the evening as most likely would.
It appears there is more that we were not aware of, as one reader has received this message from Vodafone:
LeasePlan UK also cover this on their pro EV website:
Forget about all the weasel words – the plan is clear; if the grid is overloaded, we can forget about charging our cars at night. We can only charge up when the National Grid says we can.
I can envision a time when we have plenty of electricity and stable supply for the our future needs. unfortunately it was 50 years ago,
Why the surprise? Here in the USA they tax diesel used for home heating differently from diesel used for vehicles.
The problem can easily be fixed by creating an alternate “night economy” where all businesses that don’t need large amounts of electricity switch to the graveyard shift. There is no reason workers from the DMV need to working during the day, or even the Postal Service. Switching these over to night operations will allow vehicles to be charged during the day while employees are sleeping.
And, as long car journeys will take days, due to the charging bottlenecks, Colonial Era roadside inns and taverns can be resurrected, where you used to go to rest, fodder and water your horses, you will then go to recharge your EV.
I wish I were a Progressive, as I think I have quite a talent for coming up with inane
“outside the box” ideas from my college comedy theater days. (lol)
EU red tape forces thousands of planes to fly across Europe with no passengersThe European Union has been accused forcing airlines to operate tens of thousands of “ghost flights” just to keep their airport landing slots.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/07/thousands-planes-forced-fly-across-europe-no-passengers-eu-red/
Yah, that’ll encourage UK citizens to turn in their ICE for an EV.
‘Not sure how this can be enforced since EVs don’t care where the electricity comes from, like a fat extension cord from the kitchen range circuit outlet that has a 50 amp rated cb.
So, your EV batteries will provide backup power when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.
I see nothing about what they give back to you when the utilities (not the government) takes the electricity you paid for and paid tax for.
Also, it seems that people are finally realizing that the electric grid is not large enough to provide all of the energy for present residential/industrial use and for transportation. A Smart grid is NOT going to fix that, only makes it worse and doubles the cost of your energy. Especially with mandates/rules requiring that water heaters must be electric, Home heating must be Electric. etc., etc., And all subject to being shut off when the local grid/utility does not have enough electricity. Do you think your utility is going to pay the atrocious cost forced on them because they lost a generator (gas, oil, wind, solar) or suck the electricity out of your EV for 1/10 the price they would have to Pay – not paying for a cycle on your battery either. LiIon Batteries only have so many cycles and then they are useless – any one with a laptop knows this. The cycling of a battery costs the owner money. they only have so many. each cycle caused by the utility should be paid for.
Is the Guardian on road to Damascus ?
https://youtu.be/sv9iHH7g6xk
I am unable to fund any informatrion about this on lease UK website
Its believeable, butr may actually be false news. – can anyoneconfirm this from an independent source?
BOHICA = Bend Over Here It Comes Again.
No problem. We all have unused meters just waiting to be connected.
Is the UK government going to require proof of separate metering before you buy a car? I suppose this is retroactive to current EV owners. What’s the grace period for them to get separate metering installed?
I used to be much more skeptical about EV’s, but I’m much less so now. Practically every major auto manufacturer is going EV, and certainly all the startups are. The other thing that people don’t take into account is how things might work when we have fully autonomous cars. You won’t need to own a car. When you need to go somewhere you just call one with the app on your phone, and when you are done with the car it takes itself back to the charging depot and fills up.
This enables total control of the individual by the State which is the end solution of the Communist Party.
EV chargers should probably have remote shutoff switches to disable them when the brownouts come.
Draft Legislation:This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021 No. 1467
Statutory Instrument.
Accordingly, this has not needed to be debated in Parliament.
I wonder if it has?
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Oh boy. Wonder how many people are now rethinking their purchase of an EV? So typical of government to jerk the rug out from underneath you after they enticed you to buy into their hype. The problem with inadequate grid capacity has been known from the get go. Most lefties have no idea how anything is made, built, sustained. All they know is if you get out the wallet, whatever you want magically appears.
As a retired Energy Planner and Energy Economist for one of the largest electric utilities in the US, I can confidently state the following: 1) only 45% of households in my utility’s service area have a garage, driveway, or access to a 120v charging point; 2) all fast-charging points will eventually be billed a demand charge which will double or triple electricity costs in the area.
Well ! Who saw this coming ? Everybody with a brain did !!!!
If there is a slight financial advantage to owning an EV the Government won’t care , if there is a large short term advantage (financial)(long term there is very little ) to owning a EV then the Government will want and “take”its cut , tax on usage per kwh (smart meters will make that easy ) plus a plethora of other taxes and charges that have not even been thought up yet . Look for ways of metering required on your solar panel output if you think you can sneak that in to charge your EV .
And take advantage of control of charging and therefore use of the EV , shocking ! This is not new news or new horrors , people have been saying this for years ! and wait till the country is substantially EV powered , think of the power these people will have not withstanding the fact that there is not going to be enough electricity supply to charge all EVs at night , which will be what most people require .
Do the math just for replacing petrol with an equivalent KWH (even minus accounting for 66% petrol energy wastage as heat compared to Batteries charge/discharge losses and transmission of 20%.
Well this is probally a smarter plan then what they want to do in The Netherlands. Over here they want to monitor every km driven and tax you for it, because they are missing taxes from electric vehicles.
I’ll stick with my diesel as long as there is diesel to buy.
It is common in this thread to consider power as flowing both ways through an EV charger. That just is not so. Once it is in your battery, it’s there. Other provisions would have to be made to send battery power to the grid.
Everything slotting into place. The Great Reset is proceeding nicely, thank you.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/welcome-to-the-end-of-democracy
This is in anticipation of Government Grids. Absolute control of all energy use, all the time. They are tilling the field for that already in California, bankrupting utilities with smothering layers of regulations “to prevent wildfires” when logging and controlled burns have all but disappeared…through smothering regulations.
So, the government wants access to the vehicle’s computer.
The computer that pretty much controls everything about the car nowadays.
Is anyone else concerned about vehicle security and malicious hacking?
Did anyone notice the “allows batteries to be drained into the grid” part?
Pay, possibly extra, to charge the battery then… do people get money for their drained battery, compensation for loss of lifespan due to discharge?