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New homes in England to have electric car chargers by law:
New homes and buildings in England will be required by law to install electric vehicle charging points from next year, the prime minister is set to announce.
The government said the move will see up to 145,000 charging points installed across the country each year.
New-build supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major renovations will also come under the new law.
The move comes as the UK aims to switch to electric cars, with new petrol and diesel cars sales banned from 2030.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 23 2021, @07:44PM (1 child)
How about we do the math, like I'm sure the UK government did?
According to the sources I found, current electric cars take about 30 Kwh to travel 100 miles. According to what statistics UK government sources were suggesting, England has 56 million people, and according to national stats has 2.4 people per household and 1.2 cars per household, so that translates to roughly 28 million cars, and each car travels an average of 7400 miles per year, so we need to come up with 2220 KwH per car, or about 60 TwH per year to charge all cars in the UK.
Currently the UK uses about 310 TwH of electricity total. And overall there's approximately 25% less electricity used 18:00-06:00 (night) than 06:00-18:00 (day), so about 125 KwH is at night vs 185 KwH during the day.
Which means yes, every car charging at night would potentially even out the day/night electrical usage to approximately flat, but that assumes that retailers, offices, and industry don't convert any of their mostly-daytime non-electric energy use (e.g. natural gas heating) to electricity. What it definitely wouldn't do is create higher nighttime usage nationwide.
Yes, I'm sure grid improvements will be in order for all of this, but again I would expect that to be a part of any wider effort to convert away from fossil fuels.
In short, it looks to me like the UK government made a completely reasonable decision here.
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(Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday November 24 2021, @05:36PM
You seriously think the UK government can do maths?