Charging an EV may be more expensive than you think...

The fact that even someone as intelligent as you DD can't see that these cars are useless - and always will be - just shows how powerful the "drip drip" of green indoctrination is. I expect people like zany to believe any daft fad that comes along but ....

There are so many problems with this technology that it's hard to know where to begin. If you say that there aren't enough charging points you're right of course. But who's going to build them? The private sector aren't going to because you can't make a profit from them. And then how many do we need? As a rough rule of thumb we need about 20 times (minimum) as many chargers as there are petrol/diesel pumps - look up the data and start wondering where the land comes from to site them. And then you have the problem that the National Grid can't support even the tiny number we now have - most of which are useless slow chargers. Richard Tice wanted to install a reasonably fast charger (50kW) at one of his businesses but has now given up after trying for years because the costs are huge and there's  a wait of many years. The National Grid was NEVER designed to do this and will need huge updating that will cost vast amounts of money. Etc.

Then you've got the problem of the actual supply of electricity. Latest estimates are that we need 5 more nuclear stations like Hinckley C - which is costing over £100 billion to build and has taken 11 years so far. Then you've got the problem of how long these cars take to charge up. That's an intractable problem because of the basic physics of delivering energy down a wire. It's ALWAYS going to take too long to be practical for most people. Then you have the cost - these cars started off as being cheap to run but now they're not. Then the danger of the batteries exploding. As more come onto the rods and they get older this will become more apparent. Then there's the problem that battery failure causes the WHOLE car to be written off - not very green. You get the idea. Remember it took only ONE problem (which can be solved) to put the kybosh on diesels. 

But there's the even bigger problem that it's highly dubious that these cars will result in less CO2 emissions than what they're replacing, because of the cost (and environmental damage) of building the batteries. The whole thing is just an outbreak collective insanity on a vast scale. In a few years we'll look back on this as some kind mass delusion, probably provoked by clever disinformation by our many enemies. Tesla will be bust of course, but the mainstream car manufacturers will just carry on making petrol cars - massively enriched by the "subsidies" they've screwed out of governments for "green" vehicles. These people KNOW that it's all a joke but they also know they can make vast sums from going along with it. 

You mean I fight my corner. No shit. 

Happy Christmas 

Well your wood fire is carbon neutral. so well done. 

I'm just finishing off the prep for our guests arriving this afternoon. Good times. 

How will they get there? Walk maybe?

Brits are being treated as children because they are children. You should have listened to the list of notices when trying to get a bus. They had to explain to the babies what a handrail is, to warn them if the coach is turning left, and about 5 minutes of other nursery school stuff.  To see a picture of a Brit house going up in flames because a Brit did some electrics, well that's like commissioning the job at your local primary school. 

The link is duff. They did not explain what caused it, only saying how they protect themselves from the non-risk of electrocuting themselves on low voltage DC wiring. Most inverters usually take up to about 72v. You might feel a little tingle, but this is too much for the pussies in the fire brigade. The thing is you believe the propaganda in the papers. Connecting up a solar installation is easy, but there are a few things you need to know. If kids were less thick they would have learnt the basic principles at school. For example, allow adequate cooling for your batteries, and better still, rig up a thermal cut out. Never exceed manufacturer's specs - that's bloody obvious, and the other one is use the proper wires and connectors for the job, i.e. on the low voltage high current side, make sure it can take the amps and all connections are tightly bolted down. In the old days someone would publish a short book on how to fit your own solar panels. First step - you need to get off your couch and drag yourself away from the football.