What Happened to "the Gentleman from The Times"?

Martyn1981

tunnel wrote: »

Never been a fan of leccy vehicles myself. Certainly can't see myself changing my hydrocarbon fuelled vehicle cell for a man cave......not in my lifetime anyway.

Have to say of all the cars I've driven, my favourites were turbo-diesels and Yankee V8's. Neither had much bhp/litre (or cubic inch), but they had loads of torque, which is far more fun.

EV's have stupid amounts of torque and all virtually from zero rpm. It's funny reading the specs of the Tesla model 3 and the Chevy Bolt, which both have the power of the fabled Sierra Cosworth of my 'naughty years', but both also have greater acceleration, and 200 mile 'real life' range.

almillar

Assuming that's 20 reactors, not 20 powerstations that could have 1, 2, 3, 4 or so reactors, and that they are a 'modest' 1GW (HPC is to have 2x 1.6GW), then that's an extra 175TWh pa, or a 50% increase in generation, which doesn't sound right.

That would be 21,763,275 EXTRA, FULL charges of a Renault Zoe per day! (175TWh/22kWh/365)
Either he, or I have got my maths wrong, or he is expecting a massive boom in EV sales!

EricMears

almillar wrote: »

That would be 21,763,275 EXTRA, FULL charges of a Renault Zoe per day! (175TWh/22kWh/365)
Either he, or I have got my maths wrong, or he is expecting a massive boom in EV sales!

I suspect the (somewhat flawed) logic is based on every ICE vehicle in the country being replaced by an EV and every such EV needing a full charge every day. In 'real life' there will be many who need an ICE vehicle for part of their normal usage and many more who just can't afford to buy an EV. And of course there will be few people who really completely exhaust their battery's capacity every day.

Martyn1981

EricMears wrote: »

And of course there will be few people who really completely exhaust their battery's capacity every day.

Yep. Is the Zoe about 40kWh? So that's something like 120 miles per day, or 44k miles pa. I'm going to stick with the 8,000 mile average I found.

NigeWick

tunnel wrote: »

Never been a fan of leccy vehicles myself. Certainly can't see myself changing my hydrocarbon fuelled vehicle cell for a man cave......not in my lifetime anyway.

Depends on your age, or, luck crossing the road.

almillar

Current Zoe is 22kWh, the new one is 41 kWh. I would say real range on the 22 can be described as 60 miles in winter and 80 in summer. 41 should just about double that.

Martyn1981

Some news on EV charge points and grid balancing:

Government plans for EV chargepoints will add to consumer cost

Within this are plans to require infrastructure installed for the purposes of charging EVs to have 'smart' functionality to receive, understand and respond to signals sent by energy system participants.

This would allow charge points to help balance energy supply and demand in a similar way as battery storage, although the plans did not explain if this infrastructure would be able to access the same revenue streams open to storage.

This measure was met with overwhelming support from respondents, with 90% approving of the plans which could allow EV charging demand to “form a controllable load of immense proportions at a national scale”.

Whatever that means??????


Also

Central London streetlights converted to EV charge points


And just for fun, a Prius that doubles as an on-site generator:

Toyota Turns A Plug-In Prius Launch Into A Celebration Of Hybrid Technology's Birthday

The Japanese plug-in Prius doesn’t just plug in to get charged. It also can double as a mobile power outlet, or the world’s fastest generator. This feature has become very popular in Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. The Japanese plug-in Prius also has a solar roof. That probably comes in handy when a national disaster is so severe that both battery and tank of the Prius run dry after a few days.