A major player in the EVSE market has kindly consented to provide some technical training for the electrical installation tutors at a training centre where I often tutor part-time. I imagine it is not entirely motivated by altruistic considerations but at least it gives an opportunity for the tutors and myself to get some kind of grasp on the various products on offer and where this particular manufacturer sees the direction of travel for EVSE. I am already aware that the company is moving away from products that rely on the installation of earth electrodes in PME situations and are placing considerable focus on load management. Is there any particular question that you would ask them given the opportunity?
1. How are their customers going to cope when the overloaded grid start switching of supplies?
2. When it's finally discovered that we only have natural climate change and the sea levels are not rising and CO2 is not an issue and we can use our fossil fuels. What then?
3. When will it be possible to afford an Electric vehicle for the average person?
1. The National Grid aren't worried about the increased load. Lots of other people keep saying that the grid is going to fail, but not the people who are actually running it. We've been buying so many energy-efficient appliances in recent years, that the total load has gone down a bit. If it goes up again as we switch to EVs, the grid will cope. No big deal.
2. Wishful thinking, ignoring the science, and the evidence all around us.
3. Give it a few years. Batteries keep coming down in price. But there's still a shortage of them. It's already the case that if you look at the total running cost over the lifetime of the vehicle, then EVs are cheaper. But the up-front cost of buying one is still high.
1. How are their customers going to cope when the overloaded grid start switching of supplies?
2. When it's finally discovered that we only have natural climate change and the sea levels are not rising and CO2 is not an issue and we can use our fossil fuels. What then?
3. When will it be possible to afford an Electric vehicle for the average person?
1. The National Grid aren't worried about the increased load. Lots of other people keep saying that the grid is going to fail, but not the people who are actually running it. We've been buying so many energy-efficient appliances in recent years, that the total load has gone down a bit. If it goes up again as we switch to EVs, the grid will cope. No big deal.
2. Wishful thinking, ignoring the science, and the evidence all around us.
3. Give it a few years. Batteries keep coming down in price. But there's still a shortage of them. It's already the case that if you look at the total running cost over the lifetime of the vehicle, then EVs are cheaper. But the up-front cost of buying one is still high.
