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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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    Lee Morris:

    Most modern chargers have a load management facility that can cope with this and keep the peak demand below 60A. This will likely become more of a necessity. I don’t know where you’re based as well, but we put 100s of EV chargers in, and the DNO check is normally completed for us within 2 weeks. Most of our customers who turn up a looped supply have their supply unlooped within 8 weeks and never more than 12 weeks. Obviously there are big differences across the country but there’s no reason this infrastructure can’t keep up with demand, with suitable investment. 


    SSE. Direct quote from them. "We cannot give a lead time as we have too many applications for load checks. We don't even have resource to understand the number of orders, let alone satisfy them." Been 2 months for me, 5 months for my neighbour. The point is not load management. For EVs to be a success the vehicle needs to be ready when the consumer wants it not when the electrical supply can charge it.


    If this process isn't fixed then people will not transition. How do I know this. My partner has returned their leased EV and gone back to an ICE.


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    Lee Morris:

    Most modern chargers have a load management facility that can cope with this and keep the peak demand below 60A. This will likely become more of a necessity. I don’t know where you’re based as well, but we put 100s of EV chargers in, and the DNO check is normally completed for us within 2 weeks. Most of our customers who turn up a looped supply have their supply unlooped within 8 weeks and never more than 12 weeks. Obviously there are big differences across the country but there’s no reason this infrastructure can’t keep up with demand, with suitable investment. 


    SSE. Direct quote from them. "We cannot give a lead time as we have too many applications for load checks. We don't even have resource to understand the number of orders, let alone satisfy them." Been 2 months for me, 5 months for my neighbour. The point is not load management. For EVs to be a success the vehicle needs to be ready when the consumer wants it not when the electrical supply can charge it.


    If this process isn't fixed then people will not transition. How do I know this. My partner has returned their leased EV and gone back to an ICE.


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