From 2040, the government has decreed that all new cars and light vans will be electric. There are even moves to bring this date forward.
The reason for this is that burning fossil fuel is killing us all because of the unavoidable air pollution not only in cars but at our power stations. Diseases include brain function, cancer, lung, liver and heart diseases. Many of these strange childhood illnesses and ailments we have today are down to air pollution. There is evidence that our very DNA may be affected … so corrupting all our descendants.
It’s not even theoretically possible to clean up car emission gases to a safe level. We can clean up power station emissions, but the highly toxic (and often radioactive) waste gathered still has to be disposed of. Anything we extract from the ground brings with it a deadly cocktail of heavy metals which have to be dealt with somehow. And just burying them is not enough. (Yes, coal ash can be radioactive.)
The electricity used to power electric car may still come from power stations but around 75% less fossil fuel is consumed overall compared with a petrol car, and emissions at the power station can be better controlled. Street emissions are zero.
Electric cars can be charged at home using the onboard battery charger taking several hours or fast charged elsewhere taking around half an hour.
People using electric cars for commuting can charge the car by night at home using the slow charger when there is ample capacity on the electricity grid to meet this demand at the moment. This will work whilst electric cars number in the thousands. If they were to run into the tens of thousands, this spare capacity would be used up. The situation is even worse for electric cars used for long distance travel when charging en route is needed. Nobody wants to hang about waiting but even a rapid charge may take half an hour, and a 60Kw supply is needed to achieve this. (As compared with 3Kw from a 13a socket.)
Now, if we examine this situation compared with refuelling a petrol car, there are major problems. Even being optimistic, it will take at least five times as long to refuel an electric car compared with the petrol equivalent. People will hook up and wander off; which means they could be hooked up for longer still. This means that maybe ten times as many refuelling points would be needed, each one of 60 kW. On the motorway, maybe a hundred points would be needed at each service station. It becomes immediately apparent that in no way can our electricity system meet this demand either in terms of power generated or distributing it. The country is already struggling to meet electricity demands.
The government has come up with the idea that every new home should have a dedicated electric car charging point. Being helpful? Not on your life! This means it can be separately metered and taxed. You didn’t really think the tax man would lose out on fuel duty, did you? It’s also a sop to hide the fact that you very likely won’t have a car of any description in our coming brave new world.
They have also mooted the idea that every street light should have a charging point. This is yet more drivel, as most street lights only have very light cabling, meaning the street would have to be dug up to replace it and many street lamps would have to be moved to the pavement edge. More sop, it’s not going to happen!
When you take into account the cost of an electric car and depreciation, motoring is once more going to be the province of the well off. More people will have to work from home. The rest of us will be back on the (electric?) train. Maybe even HS2, but that’s another story.
I will be 80 this coming Orangeman’s Day, assuming I am not knocked down by that hydrogen bus I keep seeing on the A13 in Whitechapel (can’t hear it coming). What happens in 2040 is of only academic interest to me. But long before that I feel sure the myth of the electric vehicle, and the diesel as well, will have been exploded. If the sole reason for electric cars is that they do not generate carbon dioxide, then it is time the idiot lawmakers took the trouble to find out how much CO2 is generated in manufacturing these things and keeping them running.
Know, I know, CO2 is good for the environment.
It can only happen if the public is prepared to pay hundreds of billions to subsidise and develop alternative energy. Income tax would be so punitive that few people would be able to heat their homes, let alone buy and run an electric car.
Which, I suppose, is basically what this blog was all about anyway.
This is all part of the “agenda”.
Electric vehicles have a much shorter ‘range’ than petrol/diesel fuelled cars – when all vehicles are electric, cars will only be useful for short journeys, so peoples’ movements will be limited to their local area. Long journeys will only be possible by using public transport like electric trains and then using local electric powered buses and trams.
(This is of course one reason why HS2 is being pushed so much)
And of course, electric vehicles are much more expensive than their petrol/diesel equivalents, so naturally poorer people simply won’t be able to afford to buy them.
For anyone unfamiliar with UN Agenda 21 (or indeed UN Agenda 2030), this is a long video, but worth watching with an open mind, because although this is from a few years ago now, there is so much going on now that it is getting beyond conspiracy theory and fast developing into actual reality:
“Agenda 21: The Plan To Kill You”:
Indeed Stuart, contrary to popular belief the UN is a faction of the globalist enemy and must be destroyed.
Electric cars as we know them can’t replace fossil fuel unless they feature standardised quick-change batteries – even then the grid would be overloaded recharging them all . . .
Whatever happened to the hydrogen fuel cell? We could refuel with exchangeable cans of hydrogen quickly enough, but where would the hydrogen come from . . .? If we are talking electrolysis then it’s still back to square 1 . . .
Jim quick charging batteries reduces their life. Hydrogen is difficult to work with as it leaks through most things.
But the whole point of this type of propaganda (discussion) is to get people discussing solutions and in so doing miss the main point which is we don’t need ANY of the proposed ‘solutions’. Not even one!
Because THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now increasing rapidly due to China building huge numbers of coal-fired power plants in China and elsewhere. Our ‘conservative’ government can destroy as much of our energy infrastructure as they like and it will make no difference to the climate but a huge difference to the cost of our electricity.
Even if Global Warming wasn’t a hoax and CO2 did increase temperature to the extent that it was a problem the supposed good effect of all our windmills and solar farms and electric vehicles would be miniscule in the face of rapid Chinese expansion of fossil fuel electricity usage.
If one wants to identify a scam then one must follow the money. Gore and his disciples have made a fortune from this one.
Currently we have two main energy distribution systems, electricity and liquid fuels.
If the liquid fuel system is to be arbitrarily phased out by Government edict all the energy now being supplied to garages and other outlets requiring petrol, diesel etc. will need to be supplied by our national grid. A car petrol tank takes a few minutes to fill. An electric car’s battery takes (I think) 30 minutes to an hour to recharge. So on motorways, for example, we would need 15 to 30 times as many connection points as there are pumps! It may have escaped our friends in Westminster with their degrees in political ‘science’ etc. that all this energy to these former petrol stations will now need to be supplied by a newly uprated/installed electricity distribution system.
And then there’s the little problem of coal power stations that these politicians have been blowing up and otherwise demolishing to make way for unreliable and uneconomic ‘sustainable’ energy sources. (Windmills, solar farms, etc.)
Perhaps the garages will have to install diesel electric generators at the pumps, err sorry, charging stations. That would work!
(Don’t laugh, companies in Australia are already doing this so they can keep going during blackouts.)
I mean. There really IS a climate crisis. You’ve just got to believe it. Mrs. May said so! While she was signing up to Hinkley with the Communist Chinese. Who are building new coal power stations at an ever increasing rate. Those Chicoms are going to kill us all with global warming! Ask the Canadians and the Austrians and they will tell you just how bad global warming really is!
Have the lunatics taken over the asylum?
(Were one to have any difficulty with that question one might want to look at what’s happening in Westminster right now!)
The Westminster reality show seems to have been taken over by the Jermemy Kyle show it seems.
China is in the process of constructing – in one year- the equivalent of ALL the US coal stations put together. Britain mucking about with electric cars or windmills is utterly insignificant.
Except in our pockets. We pay 5 times more for electricity (as does industry ) than the USA.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45640706
What about people living in flats? Are they going to have to dangle a cable out of their window? Overall pollution from vehicles has dropped massively while life expectancy has increased considerably. Yet we are being bombarded with claims that thousands of people are now dying prematurely which is simply untrue. All this is of course being led by the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind – the claim that we are causing runaway global warming leading to disastrous climate change. The world’s politicians are caught up in this new religion and are intent on impoverishing us all.
Where we live many days we can’t get enough electric to cook dinner.
The existing cars on the road consume equivalent to about 100GWhr of electricity a day. Assuming they all charge in the evening between 5 & 7pm the National Grid will need to be able to supply 50GW for two hours whilst still supporting all other electricity consumption of around 40GW during the summer months and 48GW during the coldest parts of winter. That is 90-98GW required from the grid.
The absolute maximum amount of available power is only 50GW assuming the French and Dutch and Irish connector can supply an additional 5GW. Even with 7000 on-shore and offshore wind turbines that sometimes achieve as much as 7GW but other times as little as 500MW no amount of new wind farms could supply base load.
If the 1% of the population who actually vote green get their way we will all be dying from the cold during the winter. We will not be allowed to burn wood, nor coal, nor gas, and all existing nuclear electricity generating stations are beyond their best before dates, and Hinckley Point C is unlikely to be online for another 20 years. All Western Nations will be destroyed by this global environmental socialist nonsense.
Well said Anthony, not one iota of practicality between them.
Looks like another ‘project fear’ piece.
If you live in the Granite City (Aberdeen), granite radioactivity, radon gas, cancer, SNP votes, birth defects – they’re all gonna die . . .
There are more than 1,500 active volcanoes that *when* they go off can spew out more hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide than man can produce in years and years (and years).
Although wikipedia is generally rubbish, below reference gives a flavour. And then there is the caldera under Yossermight Park in the States.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter
In any case, isn’t this a common market directive, which we wont be party to in a couple of months?
But what of Brexit?
Krakatoa and Mount St Helen’s created more pollution in their eruptions than the whole history of mankind’s activities.
….that was before Brexit…… ; )
Electric cars are wonderful to drive. Silence and seamless acceleration. (I have had one for five years)
These are simple and verifiable technical facts. The internal combustion engine is killing us all, especially in cities. At the moment there are financial inducements to owning one which will no doubt disappear quite shortly.
Trouble is that in most towns and cities there are not enough parking spaces at all, let alone making spaces with electrical terminals. Imagine the spaghetti tangle of wires plugged in all over the place. It cannot work.
However for private owners with driveways / garages etc., electric cars are indeed a good choice.
how about lack of electric ? many times we go without dinner no electric, so many times a week its a fire to cook on
In the event of a ‘collision’ they are also dangerous high voltage electricity and water don’t mix well and a damaged battery is not nice to deal with especially if fire in involved and then there is the problem of what to do with the end of life batteries. Charging at public charge points is a nightmare particularly at night and the low life among us seem to take delight in either vandalising them or hanging around near them.
Also I’m not particularly happy paying taxes to pay a ‘government contribution ‘ to someones choice of vehicle.
I’ve owned and used diesel vehicles for a very long time and had good service from them in all sorts of conditions. I don’t want a petrol car and really don’t want an electric contraption. I guess I will have to move to a country where common sense prevails.
By the way it was reckoned a year of two ago that the manufacture of batteries for an electric car resulted in more pollution than was produced during the whole lifetime of a normal car, including its manufacture.
The one advantage to government of electric cars and other “smart” devices is that they can switch them off remotely if we step out of line.