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Barriers to EV uptake - network reinforcement

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Hello everyone. 

I'm going to be looking into barriers to Electric vehicle uptake over the next two months.

I found this report from BEAMA very interesting - https://www.beama.org.uk/resourceLibrary/growing-the-supply-chain.html

Without a lot of investment the prospect of Electric Vehicles not being changed, heat pumps not having sufficient power, or renewable generation not connecting are real possibilities, it says.

Rapid growth in local and distribution lines and cables is required. An additional 300,000 km of distribution cable is needed, along with 10% to 30% growth in substation numbers. Demand-side flexibility helps to mitigate this growth.

DNOs will need to invest a huge amount. Perhaps as much as £7bn/year, averaged over the next 15 years, and as much as £15bn/year 8 subsequently. 

For domestic technologies (including heat pumps and hybrid systems, resistive heating, heat storage systems, electric vehicle charging, domestic solar power and domestic electricity storage), the required investment between 2020 and 2050 is estimated to total circa £80bn. In contrast, the required investment in electricity distribution infrastructure12 is projected to total circa £330bn11 between 2020 and 2050. 

BEAMA says substantial acceleration in investment in the price control period 2028-2033 is necessary. Planning for this period must start now; delivery affects the whole supply chain, from DNOs to component providers, and adequate scaling up of manufacturing and installation may take years, it adds.

BEAMA also notes the skills shortage is a pressing concern, and one which must be addressed to step up supply chain activity.

If anyone is interested in talking to me about this or anything related to EVs, please drop me a line.

 

Conor McGlone

Investigative Journalist 

Engineering & Technology magazine 

 www.eandtmagazine.com 

 

Tel: 0207 344 5492/ 07725498128

Twitter: @ConorMcG1one

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    Conor

    Electric vehicles are only suitable for city travel low milage non polluting run abouts

    Trucks and heavy goods long distance will always be diesel or petrol as this is the most economical way forward.

    Even HS2 should be diesel as huge reduction in installation and running costs make it totally economical outside of cities.

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    Conor

    Electric vehicles are only suitable for city travel low milage non polluting run abouts

    Trucks and heavy goods long distance will always be diesel or petrol as this is the most economical way forward.

    Even HS2 should be diesel as huge reduction in installation and running costs make it totally economical outside of cities.

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    I think this is an over simplification, that diesel oil will have to be made from something. Even if we ignore the climate change and environmental pollution concerns, some thought about how we make it now, from the decay products of plants and animals that lived in the dinosaur era, many  now extinct, reveals an obvious problem, Currently we are burning all this material at a rate somewhere between 100,000 and 1000,000 times faster than it was created initially, so it will at some point all be used up, or more accurately the small amount of stuff left, presumably the least useful and in the most inaccessible places. will eventually become so  expensive that it will never be used for fuel.

    At that point there probably will not be trucks as we know them, perhaps electric cars will ride on electric railways for longer journeys, or overhead electrification of motorways will be required -perhaps some sort of pantagraph charging scheme.

    The future will not look like the recent past, sadly I think that is all we can say with much confidence.

    Mike

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