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More Car Charging Juice Needed Humphrey? Yes Minister.

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Well I never. Haven't we said so for years? Ministers are catching on at last, bless 'em.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-7894719/UK-electricity-network-needs-upgraded-cope-rising-EV-demand.html


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    Right now TPTB in Southampton are making a right old mess of getting to work (which I do there only once a month). It appears that a whole lane is being given over to cyclists. Very worthy no doubt, but it won't change the behaviour of most commuters from the suburbs and certainly not from further afield. In this respect, carrots might work, sticks do not. ?





    ETA: right now, the M27 is being "upgraded" to smart, presumably to make it easier to join the traffic jams in the city. 

     


     




    At the risk of going slightly off topic (although still related to environment)...TPTB in southampton are blazingly incompetent. Every set of traffic lights is phased perfectly to cause chaos. The new cycleway you speak of has made the junction to the antelope retail park an accident waiting to happen.


    I have noticed electric charging points appearing at a few locations around the city, but only in 2s or 3s, no doubt due to the lack of capacity on the network.


    A chat with SSE when they were at our local substation (6,600 to 230/400), not the big one... they said they're seeing a lot of outages now caused by overload on the local network. All those lovely new housing estates.. tagged onto a network that's essentially seen only 'essential maintenance' in 25 years... it's not going to be pretty :(

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    Right now TPTB in Southampton are making a right old mess of getting to work (which I do there only once a month). It appears that a whole lane is being given over to cyclists. Very worthy no doubt, but it won't change the behaviour of most commuters from the suburbs and certainly not from further afield. In this respect, carrots might work, sticks do not. ?





    ETA: right now, the M27 is being "upgraded" to smart, presumably to make it easier to join the traffic jams in the city. 

     


     




    At the risk of going slightly off topic (although still related to environment)...TPTB in southampton are blazingly incompetent. Every set of traffic lights is phased perfectly to cause chaos. The new cycleway you speak of has made the junction to the antelope retail park an accident waiting to happen.


    I have noticed electric charging points appearing at a few locations around the city, but only in 2s or 3s, no doubt due to the lack of capacity on the network.


    A chat with SSE when they were at our local substation (6,600 to 230/400), not the big one... they said they're seeing a lot of outages now caused by overload on the local network. All those lovely new housing estates.. tagged onto a network that's essentially seen only 'essential maintenance' in 25 years... it's not going to be pretty :(

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