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Electric Vehicles - Impact on electrical network. Survey of vehicle uptake.

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Dear IET forum,

I am carrying out research into the impacts of the projected surge of electric vehicle uptake on the local network infrastructure. The results will be used as part of my Technical report for Ceng. Please could you spare 2 minutes completing the survey in the link below? Its very short I assure you and completely anonymous. My aim is to understand a sample of peoples views on them personally taking up ownership of electric vehicles and if the pandemic may have changed their future car ownership behaviours. 

When complete i can post the results here and if you are interested make a comment and i can send you the finished technical report.

Much appreciated, thank you in advance.!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CC7GJSB

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    mapj1:

    As an average from a few datasheets of scooters and electric bikes of the 300watt/ 15 mph type, these typically seem to run for perhaps an hour and need 3 to  4 hours to recharge so the charger load is perhaps 75 to 100 watts max. for a few hours at a time. Most houses have saved more than this by changing to LED lights, and have then blown quite a lot of that saving again by leaving the ADSL router and associated internet of things kit running 24 hours per day. ?

    I agree even if every house had a scooter, it would still not be very significant. Car (and even motorbike) charging, at orders of magnitude higher energies are far more of a concern.

    Mike


    This may well be roughly correct. Electric scooters are unlikely to place a heavy current load on the network, as they will be charged at different times of the day, but if they increase in popularity then they will be likely to make a small (but not insignificant) impact on overall energy consumption and domestic electricity bills.


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    mapj1:

    As an average from a few datasheets of scooters and electric bikes of the 300watt/ 15 mph type, these typically seem to run for perhaps an hour and need 3 to  4 hours to recharge so the charger load is perhaps 75 to 100 watts max. for a few hours at a time. Most houses have saved more than this by changing to LED lights, and have then blown quite a lot of that saving again by leaving the ADSL router and associated internet of things kit running 24 hours per day. ?

    I agree even if every house had a scooter, it would still not be very significant. Car (and even motorbike) charging, at orders of magnitude higher energies are far more of a concern.

    Mike


    This may well be roughly correct. Electric scooters are unlikely to place a heavy current load on the network, as they will be charged at different times of the day, but if they increase in popularity then they will be likely to make a small (but not insignificant) impact on overall energy consumption and domestic electricity bills.


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