I want to know why, and who shut down the most viewed topic in the Club forum. Its Engineering content is obvious, and very large indeed. The answer to the problem is supposedly Electricity, and yet we cannot discuss it!
Surely, if every body, who could actually afford to replace their existing car with an electric car, was required to additionally pay for a full 4kw solar array to be installed on their house roof, and if the electric cars/mopeds/bicycles were all appropriately redesigned and downsized to make daily charging by such, then we might really be ‘cooking on gas’ – oops, sorry, not PC any more!
The only problem with that is it would mean charging the car by day and using it at night. As the grid can't at present cope with large in-feeds from local generation, what would also be needed would be a large (Battery?) energy storage system in each home. Then what about the homes with more than one car? Or those in flats without a 'house roof'? There is still a lot of work to be done on infrastructure to support the goals.
Surely, if every body, who could actually afford to replace their existing car with an electric car, was required to additionally pay for a full 4kw solar array to be installed on their house roof, and if the electric cars/mopeds/bicycles were all appropriately redesigned and downsized to make daily charging by such, then we might really be ‘cooking on gas’ – oops, sorry, not PC any more!
The only problem with that is it would mean charging the car by day and using it at night. As the grid can't at present cope with large in-feeds from local generation, what would also be needed would be a large (Battery?) energy storage system in each home. Then what about the homes with more than one car? Or those in flats without a 'house roof'? There is still a lot of work to be done on infrastructure to support the goals.
