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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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    CliveS, do you have any backup for the assertion that CO2 released in the countryside is captured by local vegetation to any extent? I would like to believe that this was true, and saw it reported as such on Tomorrow's World in the late 1980s. However the evidence of the last 30 years is that the rate of release of CO2 far outweighs the capacity of the natural world to capture it. Absorption of CO2 by the oceans is being blamed for acidification, which could lead to the collapse of that ecosystem in the coming decades. Furthermore, I suspect that most exhaust gas streams rise fairly quickly due to the residual heat that they contain, so they have minimal local effect on vegetation. Deposits of soot and other toxins clearly do fall out locally, however. If you have any evidence that local capture of CO2 is a significant effect, it would be great to see it.
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    CliveS, do you have any backup for the assertion that CO2 released in the countryside is captured by local vegetation to any extent? I would like to believe that this was true, and saw it reported as such on Tomorrow's World in the late 1980s. However the evidence of the last 30 years is that the rate of release of CO2 far outweighs the capacity of the natural world to capture it. Absorption of CO2 by the oceans is being blamed for acidification, which could lead to the collapse of that ecosystem in the coming decades. Furthermore, I suspect that most exhaust gas streams rise fairly quickly due to the residual heat that they contain, so they have minimal local effect on vegetation. Deposits of soot and other toxins clearly do fall out locally, however. If you have any evidence that local capture of CO2 is a significant effect, it would be great to see it.
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