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We need your help to tackle the transport challenge!
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Our aim is not to “drain the ocean” in a few months but to add a voice of engineering insight to the debate, demolish potential myths and legends and suggest some sensible ways forward. We don’t expect to achieve pinpoint accuracy in our investigation, but we can be honest about that. We want to establish some genuine truths and point to where more work or funding should be focussed. We need more information and guidance to existing reliable reports and research on carbon in materials mining and manufacture, infrastructure provision, renewal and maintenance, and end of life recycling. Please share your thoughts by commenting below.
Our own analysis suggests that electricity generation in the UK would need to be around 600-800TWh by 2050 (depending on what else is assumed) in order to support the net zero transition, in particular, by way of electrification of heat and transport (https://es.catapult.org.uk/reports/innovating-to-net-zero/). This electricity would need to come from low carbon sources such as offshore wind, nuclear and other renewables but these might be supported during peak demand periods by gas plants and an array of storage options (battery, thermo-mechanical and hydrogen storage). Overall, the electricity being supplied to EVs would/and is likely to be getting lower in carbon intensity.
Our own analysis suggests that electricity generation in the UK would need to be around 600-800TWh by 2050 (depending on what else is assumed) in order to support the net zero transition, in particular, by way of electrification of heat and transport (https://es.catapult.org.uk/reports/innovating-to-net-zero/). This electricity would need to come from low carbon sources such as offshore wind, nuclear and other renewables but these might be supported during peak demand periods by gas plants and an array of storage options (battery, thermo-mechanical and hydrogen storage). Overall, the electricity being supplied to EVs would/and is likely to be getting lower in carbon intensity.
