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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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    Most of this just simply isnt true. petrol and diesel vehicle also emit many other serious toxins as well as CO2. And the other thing that’s constantly not mentioned is the fact that mining, transporting, refining, transporting, and distributing the petrol/diesel to the end user, huge amount of energy is wasted - way more than the energy used to get electric to a car. Oil will eventually run out, it is only finite. They way we live today is not sustainable, and resistance to change is futile... sorry, that’s the Borg, but despite change being difficult and costly, it will happen. 


    I also don’t believe such huge changes to the grid are required. I have seen no evidence of this outside of the hysterical media. Most studies conducted by experts serving the grid and large DNOs show that gradual infrastructure upgrades, combined with rebalancing of the networks by shifting energy usage times and smoothing of peaks over the next 15 years will be sufficient. 


    I know this is a hot topic and people can get very worked up over it but the future is exciting - there are always new things, and I’m sure there are unknowns, but the only thing that is constant is change.
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    Most of this just simply isnt true. petrol and diesel vehicle also emit many other serious toxins as well as CO2. And the other thing that’s constantly not mentioned is the fact that mining, transporting, refining, transporting, and distributing the petrol/diesel to the end user, huge amount of energy is wasted - way more than the energy used to get electric to a car. Oil will eventually run out, it is only finite. They way we live today is not sustainable, and resistance to change is futile... sorry, that’s the Borg, but despite change being difficult and costly, it will happen. 


    I also don’t believe such huge changes to the grid are required. I have seen no evidence of this outside of the hysterical media. Most studies conducted by experts serving the grid and large DNOs show that gradual infrastructure upgrades, combined with rebalancing of the networks by shifting energy usage times and smoothing of peaks over the next 15 years will be sufficient. 


    I know this is a hot topic and people can get very worked up over it but the future is exciting - there are always new things, and I’m sure there are unknowns, but the only thing that is constant is change.
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