Make Charging Costs Fair
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2022
- For this showcase episode Robert spoke to long-term EV ambassador and automotive journalist Quentin Willson from the FairCharge campaign to learn more about their work campaigning to tackle the critical issues of charging costs, infrastructure, and affordable access to electric vehicles.
FairCharge are challenging the political agenda to make EV ownership not only fair for everyone, but a viable option for all. This is a once-in-a-generation chance for the UK to push electrification forward, bring cleaner air to our towns and cities, have greater energy security and boost economic activity - but it is vital that no driver is left behind.
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A motoring journalist that speaks sense! He is very rare. Countries need energy independence
What a great interview, Quentin is such an eloquent speaker and knows what he is talking about.
he is getting wads of cash to tark this shite
Eloquentin
Is is is. If if if. D d d. Not that eloquent
Done brought in socialism to screw UK .. let it remain UK and not turn it into China
I’ve enjoyed watching Quentin since I was a kid and he was on the original Top Gear.
It saddens me that successive governments have not seen and taken the opportunity to make a positive change. It’s not just a transport issue, it impacts all aspects of our lives, but they refuse to see it.
It's a pity the current government are pressing on with digging up dinosaurs -- Jacob Re-Smogg, et al. -- which take years to come on-line, where as solar and wind is about 1 year.
They don't refuse, they just can't sell the wind to their mates.
@@djtaylorutube 😅 Good point!
@@djtaylorutube or they don't get financial gain from wind companies when they leave politics
Successive? We've had the same one for the last 12 years
The importance of charger reliability is critical. So many are left broken because the owners don't bother.
What a superb interview and podcast. I will certainly join the fair charge campaign.
We should also be demanding that our electricity costs are based on renewable generation and not gas.
In the Netherlands all charging tariffs are flat rate during the day and also the weekend. It’s crazy to not take advantage to push car owners to green energy moments.
Free market is fine, don't need fixed rates, gov could just implement a maximum price/kWh
@@t.g.2777 peak prices will also drop if we use more green. The thing is that loads of companies will need to upgrade their billing software.
An amazing podcast! Thank you so much! 🙏🏽 I wish many policy makers from India 🇮🇳 watch this too. There is a lot going on about tariff here and also the charging network is going bezerk. I already have 30 apps on my phone just to locate a charge point when I go somewhere new.
Good stuff. We need more people like you two, who are in the public eye, to drag the politicians out of the 80s. Looking at Zap Map today, there still seems to be a huge shortage of 200kW+ chargers at Motorway Services on the M6, M5 & A30. So travelling to Cornwall, from the midlands,, pulling a caravan, will still be a tad tricky, as most are only 50kW or below. And Services tend to only have 2 or 3 at most.
The services themselves say, thet they will expand their chargers and re-route their road systems to accomodate caravan owners, as the demand rises.
I wonder when they will realise that the demand is already here.
Two legends.
Excellent episode - Wilson is a genuinely passionate advocate for this revolution. Good call interviewing him.
Brilliant interview and I give my support wholeheartedly. Fossil fuel has been the livelihood of many countries and large companies, so I ccan have a good guess they don't want the change, but the furure is electric and they need to find a way to make it work. Our politicians still seem to care more for them rather than pushing our country forwards.
Signed up thanks Robert! Good luck Quentin!! you're going to need it with the bunch currently in office. lol
By far, without a doubt, the best interview I’ve seen on this channel, and I’ve seen them all.
Excellent ,Thank you Quentin will give your site a look, what you say makes absolute sense.
I wrote to my MSP last year about Business Rates and rooftop solar on commercial properties. In Scotland, solar panels "used primarily for self consumption" are subject to Non Domestic Valuations by the Scottish Assessors association according to the cost of solar panels as they were back in the year 2016. As a result they are subject to a business rates burden that until late last year completely eclipsed any electricity savings that would be had by the organisation installing them.
Conversely last year commercial rooftop solar are no longer subject to business rates valuations in England and Wales. An excellent step.
I wrote a question to my MSP that could be asked in Parliament, and the answer by the Scottish Government failed to acknowledge the business rates burden at all and deflected the question with the usual rhetoric of being the most progressive tax regime etc.....
It's disappointing, and it's just one example of governments "getting in the way" of renewable investments. If we want cheap electricity, then we need the freedom to invest without undue burdens.
The issue is the Scottish government is still anti-business. It is as if they believe that business is the enemy of the people. If they really want to reach 100% renewable Scottish grid, we need to make it financially advantageous by not increasing Business Rates for having solar or wind turbines and charge extra for those who don’t.
Glad someone is thinking about equity and access to EVs. For the moment they are middle class toys for people who can afford them, can charge them at home and benefit from incentives paid for by people who can’t even afford an EV. The poor paying for the rich is obscene. Mass adoption is really important so all power to your elbow Quentin!
You can buy second hand ev for £6000
We urgently require the ability to charge EVs from terraced homes. Charging from home gives owners and tenants cheaper costs for EVs. But we need to demand from our councils charging cable ducts in our footpaths. This will help millions own EVs with cheaper costs of ownership. We also need to charge from any building that has solar panels. #microgeneration is our future, our energy independence.
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
Good on the both of you
Brilliant and not a wobbly stool in sight, keep it up . Roger in Norfolk
This is great and true. Problem now is that since filming we have gained a new PM, Chancellor and Energy/Enviro minister who are absolutely in the fossil fuel camp.
This is the problem with political issues, an energy minister who is in the fossil fuel camp can not be seen as an advocate of green energy, hence, he or she biased towards one and not the other. What was she thinking, stupid woman.
… and who are, right from the top of the page, demonising anyone who disagrees or might disagree with their pig-headedness as "The Anti-Growth Coalition".
Yes, that why this video and it's exhortation to sign and send the letter to your MP at the end is so important.
I was one of the : I love the sound, I love the smell. I'm still waiting for my EV to be deliverd. But I made the change in my head some time ago. And every morning I am waiting on the bus with my daughter, I notice how much the exhaust fumes stink, how much the loud exhausts agravate me ... Once you realise how stupid it all is, how much more efficient EV's are, how much better they are for your health ... Yeah sure they are not perfect, but we should no longer wait for perfection, we have to stop burning dino juices.
2 legends, thanks.
Really nice to hear this from a converted petrol head, Jonny Smith and now Quentin Willson, properly campaigning for a better future.
in two words.. gob smacked!
Quintin you are a saint. you have my support.
Great interview and information. I fully agree with what was said. However the barrier that's stopping people moving to EV's is cost. The mainstream manufacturers are obsessed with adding gizmo and features that no one needs and the cost of vehicles is eye watering especially in the current climate. How can a petrol equivalent vehicle be 10k cheaper than the EV model. We need a vehicle for the masses to kick start EV buying in the UK.
Quentin is amazing, as always
Well said Quentin.👏
Fab work. Just as i was watching this I had an email from Tesla saying
" Starting on October 11, we’re offering an overnight discount at specific charging locations, with new locations being added over the coming weeks.
When you charge during non-peak hours, you’ll get a lower rate while reducing pressure on your local energy grid. "
I know you avoid trying to be Tesla fans but I am... Un ashamedly.
Crazy how Tesla just seems to know the right move!
Quentin is certainly the man for doing this job role
*role.
Just sent the link to my MP and ask him to watch it and make contact.
Quentin, cannot find where to upload "EV experience" video... but have signed petition and emailed my MP
Let me 'upload' this then:
ruclips.net/video/yPqXKksCAvI/видео.html
Thank you
Wow, my preconceptions about Quentin couldn't' have been more wrong. More power to you Quentin.
Great stuff.❤
Good luck with the current prime minister everything she touches turns to dust.
Really pleased to see a campaign looking at those that can't charge at home.
Great video
Fully Charged should advocate for more public transport too. Why just cars?!
I remember Quentin as 'the posh guy' from the original Top Gear series reviewing cars like Rolls Royce and Bentley. It is good to hear that he is out to make EV's accessable to low income households. I am someone who has to date been stopped from going electric mainly because of the high purchase price of EV's. The way I see things, either the cost of manufacturing EV's needs to come down (and even then cheaper EV's coming onto the second hand market will take some time to trickle through) or there needs to be some scheme to let those on low incomes spread the purchase cost without drowning in interest payments.
Why do only the Scottish have access to 6yr 0% loans for electric vehicles and solar PV, bonkers, we get bugger all in the UK, if they want adoption and net zero, more like this needs to be offered to all...!
The total cost of ownership is often lower for EV's compared to non-EVs. A high mileage driver could find it cheaper to lease an EV than drive their current vehicle even if they can't buy outright or get a car loan. They'll save money and get a nice new car that isn't going to pollute.
Prices for EV's are predicted to match non-EV's in a few years, so low mileage drivers whose only criteria is cost will find no reason to pick the non-EV model. As you say, this will have an effect on the price of second hand EVS which are still fetching a premium over non-EVs. A 10 year old Nissan Leaf, not even a particularly good EV, can fetch £5k or more.
To create parity between rich and poor and effectively remove the EV poor tax all you have to do is legislate to make the car the MPRN. That MPRN would then be attached to a domestic tariff or business tariff. Harmonising the VAT rate between the driveway haves and have nots. You could then charge anywhere and be billed with you domestic energy tariff and potentially resolve the EV excise duty too. It is the simplest legislative tweak.
We need more homes with solar panels and better infrastructure for charging
WELL DONE QUINTEN for not mentioning the "H" word!
(That's actually something you need to have a conversation about to stop the politicians "pouring" away the truly green energy?)
Great discussion, the UK has a long way to go. The lack of working charging points and price rises of the ones that do work is the main reason I went back to petrol.
Quentin, energy has always been a financial imperative. Literally, "Energy is life". Clean, reliable, low CO2 Nuclear Power needs to be part of our energy mix, it's planning to fail without acknowledging this requirement.
There is nothing cheap about nuclear unless you pretend that decommissioning does not exist.
@@jsanders100 I never said it was cheap.
@@peak6765 But did you deliberately avoid saying that? People need to know all the facts, not bits of it!!
Wind is a LOT cheaper and quicker to build!
@@peak6765 you never said it was safe either. So can we conclude it’s dangerous and expensive?
"Absolutely 150% accurate". Hmmm.
Brilliant video and I just hope that we get more affordable cars.so more people can go electric.
Quentin Wilson is one of those motoring journalists now turned entrepreneur is one of those men who know their facts.
I was charged £5 per kW recently in Manchester we need a ombudsman ASAP
Absolutely agree and the ably way to push this forward is to make it cheaper to charge. It’s not possible for lots of people especially in cities to charge at home and even when it is it’s not always possible to charge more than one car at a time and many families have multiple vehicles. It’s all madness and more incentives need to make it easier for people to make this happen. Unfortunately the government aren’t capable of doing anything at the moment 🤦♂️
The man talks sense.
Love the tech hate the price, my old diesel costing more now on fuel.... Should I switch to ev to pay even more... I think not..... My £100 banger diesel still going strong after 7 years.... 65mpg on a 213k engine not bad..... Citroen you made a very good car..... Not getting rid of it this year 12m mot.
Quentin dosnt look older than when he was in top gear.
Just tried to share this vlog on my Facebook page and Facebook wouldn't let me, I eventually got it on there, but it then wouldn't let me put a description.
We need homes with battery storage technology. Actually from new house builders. It wouldn't add much to a mortgage for it .
And car to grid technology maturing. Buying an ev should also provide power at peak times for the home then top up again over night on cheap green energy.
Good interview, but a little worrying to see the water level changes in Quentin's glass. Continuity editor?
Where do you get overnight charging for 3.5p/ kwh
Wait a minute did he say 3.5pr overnight? Where do I find that tariff?
It's more like 7.5p for 4 hrs and 35p for the remaining 20 hours of home charging. It'll soon rise again. All this with the UK government scrapping all car buying and home charger incentives
@@ashb8572 and the batteries cost heaps
@@emboriako yes, I'd need to pay £6k (fitted) for a used replacement 30kwh battery for my 8 year old leaf. As it's our 2nd car in the house, we only use it for short trips so i don't mind the Battery degradation from 100 miles to 70 mile range in 8 years. It could be a deal break for people who actually need the range for commutes ect. I sold my long range MG5 which could be 250 miles, after 8 months as l got fed up with motorway services having 2 Gridserve chargers per location. I didn't fancy queuing up, on top of waiting 40-60 minutes further to get it charged (at 5 to 10 times the price of my house electric). Plus the price of future energy made sure it was a no deal for me, so I got a Dacia bifuel which is factory fitted LPG for hassle free fueling and more stable prices currently 70p per litre (unlike future petrol/diesel/leccy) :)
EDF electric Tariff... it's a dual fuel tariff which is very cheap over night, but mega expensive during the day... and the Gas price is expensive as well...
I'm guessing he's still on a fixed rate from a while ago.
A big barrier to EV adoption is the large portion of the population who don't have the facilities to charge the vehicle at home and have no way to install those facilities. I live in a 2nd floor flat in a block of 29 which is tiny compared to the giant complexes which are increasingly being built in towns and cities. Public charging points charge around 4 times as much as my overnight electricity price and 50% more than my daytime rate (according to Ionity's Web site). EV ownership will be limited to those fortunate enough to have a means of charging at home or able to justify the cost of charging at a public facility.
It cannot be beyond the wit of EV charge companies to have variable priced tariffs, depending on who's charging. If you're a resident who lives in a certain area/postcode, you should be able to enter a code/credit card/something?, which means you can charge your car at a discounted tariff, similar to what someone with a home charger would pay.
Audit your use.
Check charging opportunities/ time on site as you "go about your normal activities"
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Weekly shop? Charging on site?
Socialising
Gym
etc.
Graze charging may be sufficient.
If you've got a car, you have to park it somewhere. Those parking places will have chargers.
Several weeks ago the government announced support for citizens and businesses but this was not mentioned. Moreover surprisingly nuclear was not mentioned, and the future could well be with fusion.
and its also about making EVs more affordable to much more of the population and with less expensive tech and more basic.
I live in Scotland and I'm looking at 40+ wind turbines. We don't need nuclear when grid scale batteries exist and are about 10% of the cost of a nuclear power station. Every supermarket should have a charging station. Having worked for ShelI we should nationalise Shell and BP with no compensation to shareholders, .
You made such sense Steve and then spoke about stealing stuff without paying for it. Such a shame.
@@carlarrowsmith When I worked for Shell they had 'slush funds' for spending in Africa to support the political aims of particular oligarchs. I devised the codes to show who had received what. The dividends paid by Shell over the last 12 years means shareholders have received 490 times the amount they invested in 2010. Where is the theft?
@@steverichmond7142 If you own your house it'll have gone up in value over the last few years. Could I just come and take it from you? Leave your keys on the way out please.
@@carlarrowsmith I own a lot of farms in Scotland and charge my tenants a fair rent. I do not charge them 50% of the capital value of those farms every year.
@@steverichmond7142 Doesn't make any difference, let's just steal everything we fancy at any time and if it's a good cause all the better. If our pals we give it too all the better... let's end up like Venezuela, great idea, then you won't have money for anything.
ChargePlaceScotland 38p connection and 19p kWh, seems very fair to me ! one of the few Ionity nearby is 73p, Podpoint 28p
Depending on where you go remember - it varies depending on the operator. Some CPS points are free, some cost more.
Also, Ionity and Podpoint generally work.
Energy independence is so possibly. 1st thing would be to help everyone to reduce their usage by insulating every house so we don't need so much. We already produced a high proportion of our energy from renewable if we didn't waist so much we wouldn't need to make as much.
This is what I have done at a small scale at my home, it just needs to be scaled up to cover the entire country.
It would be so good for the economy. People would have money to spend on other things than just that energy bill.
I agree the current electricity tax is unfair/regressive. What I think should happen is that VAT at home should be quite high but it should only kick in after a certain amount. So the first say 300-400kWh per month is untaxed (or at 5%) then anything after that get 20% VAT applied. This means there home appliances would be VAT free but the extra used for vehicles will get VAT added. This will encourage people to buy more efficient vehicles and be more thoughtful about electricity use generally.
In the U.S. we pay as much as $.43/kwh at DC fast chargers. I won't pay that much to charge when I can charge at home for 9-12 cents per kwh.
Yes, only use fast chargers when you're away from home
Good discussion. I'm curious though. How was the tape smuggled out of prison?
It is very important to get local councils uptodate, and ensure that those who park on the street have access to cheap overnight charging, so they do not put up daytime electricity demand and so that they have fair access to the tech.
Try charging in Canada. The government forces charging companies to price by the minute instead of by kwh so prices of energy is a mess and incentivised the charger to support faster rates so they can advertise the price at the highest power limits by the minute and then give you the least amount of energy in the longest amount of time people will tolerate. It's a complete mess.
Got to be perfectly blunt I want to make the change. As a local tradesman I drive 10,000 miles in my EX BG VW caddy. It gets 370miles on a tank. Most days I can get away with a 24KWH Nissan E-NV200.
I cant stand behind my van without having to sup on a blue inhailer.
I Live in Medway Kent. I have no drive. From my house I would have to do a 8 mile round trip in rush hour traffic to make a charge at a 50KW pump. There is no driveway sharing people local to me. I have passed 3 examples of cable grate/gullys to the local council and they refer me to Highways that then pass me back to the local council.
The council has installed 7Kw points in council car parks, in permitted zones, train stations and a multi storey. These are pointless for contractors as vans or vans with ladders cannot get in half of them. Nor would you park and leave them for several hours / overnight without first having to make a detour to store your tools in a safe place. NOT forgetting you would have to pay for the parking at the meter.
Connected curb who supplied the points. Couldn't even tell me the price per Kwh during the EV event held at Rochester castle grounds.
Don't get me wrong. I want to go through the proper route. I want to prove i'm not the edge case. But i'm going to be the one with a 15M type 2 lead out my bedroom window, down a catenary wire to a flag pole welded to the front of my van. If I have to.
That is before you even get to the fair price to charge crisis.
I have had my EV for just a year. A 2nd hand leaf. Ok the range is a bit limited but 95% of the time it's more than I need. On the odd occasion that I do need to rapid charge it's only takes 12 to 15 mins to get from 20% to 80%, just enough time to go to the toilet and catch up on some emails, then I am ready for the next 80miles. Never going back to fossil fuel.
My house is run off my storage battery overnight. Only fully discharged once this month, so far at any rate.But if we had EVs that could do bidirectional charging that would go a long way to reducing fossil fuel demand.
What capacity and brand of battery system do you use out of interest?
Get the government to increase their recommend company car driver allowance up from 5 p per mile…
All public charges should be free. The easy way to pay is vehicle road tax. The more you drive the higher the road tax.
Air quality doesn’t get enough press. I’m an EV driver in Southampton, where up to 9 cruise ships can be on the berth, at once - cruise ships run on diesel, even when docked. Their emissions were exposed by a satellite a few years ago.
A cruise ship in dock is the equivalent of 1 MILLION car engines at idle …
More air quality black spots need to be exposed.
Plus southampton city council has just decided to stop their 47 EV chargers being free of charge…
“The government can understand ..” Pray for a vote of no confidence in the current PM and her ‘doomsday cult’ of a cabinet.
octopus electric juice card puts the cost of public charging on you home energy bill. Crazy idea but what if you could prove you had no ability to charge at home and as such the chargers located x miles around your home were subsidised to the rate of your home electric tariff, even to the time of use.
Grid level storage is going to be the game changer for renewables, one of the better grid batteries by Highview power is one of the better options with their liquid air batteries made from commonly sourced parts and non rare earth materials.
@You Tube I totally agree, we need a bit of everything.
Hi agree with you, but I suspect individuals will get their first with solar & home battery. Companies should have a much shorter pay back given the rise in prices we now have.
By dropping off the grid they take the strain off it.
Take care M.
We need car to grid. Imagine if your car could power the house during peak times then top up again over night on cheap tariff. Buying an ev should be a home storage solution as well.
@@richardcorns8553 can you imagine the all the cars backing up the grid, technology is starting to roll out now I think.
A couple of national treasures
As in "where did they dig them up?" (Sorry...it was just "there"😉)
All we need is for your EV to be on your home electricity tariff. Any AC charging legally has to be charged at the same rate as your home electricity, and any DC charging below 60kw at 10% more. With 75-175kw charged at 50% more and above 175kw charged at 100% more. These numbers could be agreed on later to make sure the fastest chargers are still profitable to operate and install. The EV charging point should directly bill your energy company and you EV charging sessions appear on your home bill.
Legislatively to do this all they need to do is legislate to make the EV the MPRN instead of the supply to the charging point.
Why would anyone install expensive public chargers if this was the case?
@@MyMednas a responsible government would see this as essential infrastructure and invest in the country as opposed to waiting for capitalists to make a quick buck.
As someone who can charge at home, I don't mind paying more for rapid chargers because it encourages the networks to expand. We need more chargers first, then we can worry about how much they cost.
I agree. However I also think it is only fair to charge the same tax rate for public chargers as for home charging. If the UK has 20% VAT on public chargers, and 5% VAT on home electricity as stated in the video, the VAT for public charging should be lowered to 5% immediately. Also, people who use public chargers should be able to get lower rates when they charge during off-peak hours, instead of a flat rate whenever they charge.
All very sensible ideas, LFP batteries are getting cheaper and more energy dense every year, just by subsidising them and encouraging its people to buy them would be a huge step in the right direction. Then its people would put them to work in various ways and do it cheaply and efficiently and quickly. Its not complicated...Unless your a politician it seems.
Quentin please go and talk to Milliband.
Guys you really need to become politicians to make the difference! It needs to come from the inside out not the outside in. Being on the benches on PMs question time etc is where your voices will be heard the loudest. If film stars can become senators and presidents why not tv personalities? Cheers
0.5% of 4000 is 20, but his point still stands. I wonder what %age is for ICE vehicles?
How about taking about the rip off cost of having a 30amp socket fitted to charge the car at home❓😡🇬🇧🏴🤠
What's needed is for the government to insist the legacy auto companies manufacture an electric conversion kit for all their ICE cars, there a plenty of garages spread across the country who could fit these kits.
I can't afford an electric car but I expect I could afford a conversion kit and the garage time to fit one.
If you tell the Government that electricity VAT should be fair they might put home VAT up to match the VAT on public charging networks.
I agree with all of that, and with the reduction in VAT on public charging to 5%… but what you left out was that: yes, they would loose 18million in earnings now, and 0.5 billion if 80% of cars were electric (so not sooner than 15years or later) and that the reduction of 5p/L on fuel equated to 2 billion…, and that but also that they already make billions and billions in fuel duty which they would not make when 80% are electric…, so where is money going to come from….. stop paying subsidies to oil companies and that would save billions…, but would they do it…., no chance.
I had to charge at Osprey. I like their network as it's pretty reliable but it's now £1 a kWh. It's going to turn people off, who wants the hassle when price is that high and will probably go higher..
Octopus have gone to 12p kWh for their overnight. It's not looking good when you price in a grand for a home charge point..
Time for the government to separate the price of a unit of electricity from the wholesale price of gas, can’t remember where I read it but apparently we are paying 4 x more for electricity than it costs to generate, I’m with Octopus Energy where 100% of their electricity is generated by wind, sun and water and would be in single figures per kW yet I’m now being charged 35p kW.
I can see that many people will never be able to charge at home but I never realised that it is much as 40%. I may be in that group. My fusebox is at the front of the house and the garage and road are at the bottom of my back garden.
Similar to me, cost 2k to get a charger installed
@@bobjohn3108 Ouch. It might be easier and cheaper for me to tap into the street lights!
Has anyone worked out the waiting times at charges when all cars are electric? Why not also start fracking gas and use it to make hydrogen to power that industry in the UK car market?
You're probably not thinking EV enough here. It's not the same as cars that go to a fuel station, the vast majority of charging will be done at home. Most drivers will charge up once or twice a week at home or perhaps at work, job done.
I don't have home charging so I charge up here, there and everywhere but rarely at rapid chargers as I plan ahead to have enough charge before making a long trip
I’m in…….!
The last thing we need is government interference. Free market competition is the only way to get those costs down.
Quentin has described Tesla supercharger network , good experience, fair pricing etc
Basically, things work when the owner is invested in the idea.
Technology exists for chargers to recognize the individual cars plugged in. Would it be hard for public charger providers to have a way you could sign up and link the electricity supplied at a public charger to your home energy supplier tariff and the cost put straight on your home energy bill? The charger networks could charge a connection fee (+VAT) for the service they are providing, which could be market-led, with the incentive for networks to have the cheapest connection fee and the most reliable network. Win Win - charger companies still make money and have an incentive to invest, equality of charging access for all, and Gov gets some VAT from charging companies and from your home bill.
Please keep in mind accessible and safer chargers for disabled, the elderly, people with children and those that struggle and those who are afraid to use the current public charging infrastructure in dodgy car park corners.
I forgot to say I have signed up to fair charge.
Quinten.
The soon to be completed (2025?) Hinkley C project looks like costing +/-£23bn and producing energy at 2.5 times the cost of Offshore Wind (Dogger Bank).
Since the Government seems to be lining us up for another "Unclear" project at Sizewell C which will no doubt be even more expensive, I wondered if the money could be better spent.
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A Google search reveals that there are approximately
21 million private homes in the UK.
So the Hinckley project equates to about 1.5kW and £1,100 per household?
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I wondered....
Could we install 4 400W (1.6kW) Solar panels and a 2kWh Battery on every home in the UK for £1,100 per home?
Would it take 20 years?
(1m homes per year, 4,000 per day on a 5 day week....
But if there were 8 person teams, 2 houses at a time,
16,000 jobs)
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I'm sure that with creative funding and tax revenue from job creation for the install project, that could be done?
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1.6 kW of Solar x 21 million homes would be equivalent to the same 3.2GW and would be an "immediate ramp" in capacity for every completion, effectively averaging half the capacity over the full "build time"
The storage would immediately remove the peak evening load from each home and could be easily expanded by "plug and play" if designed properly, costs allowing.
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I would suggest that this is a better use of funds that committing to a 20 year potential "white elephant" which may be redundant before completion?
Awesome interview but it's what a lot of people have said already. It's just the government holding everything back, to the extent we will be the last nation to adapt to mass adoption of electric vehicles. Cost of charging and the blind officials in parliament are the issue.
More expensive than diesel now, longer to fill and less distance!