Battery for electric car.

I'm well aware about diversity. Which can apply to charging EVs too.

Cant you afford to let him live in a house? Even if it's yours?

then please explain /how/ substantial numbers of EVs can be charged at home in addition to existing use without increasing the ADMD

Don't ask Dave. He can't understand Big Words. And he doesn't Do Sums.

Any answer you get will be a hand wavy 'the wind is always blowing somewhere' sort of response.

The actual figures that suggest that gas and road fuel together are about 65% of UK energy consumption show that the grid needs to double or treble in size to go 'zero carbon' and the figures that show that this is completely unsustainable using 'renewable energy' are conveniently discarded.

In message snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk>, at 15:16:47 on Thu, 21 Jan

They both use the same backhaul to the substation.

But having an EV roughly doubles the average power consumption of a household, so despite diversity, it will fry the cables.

In message snipped-for-privacy@outlook.com, at

Yes, massive investment to double the local networks. Not just tapping all the EV chargers into the existing network.

In message <ruc605$57k$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 15:18:29 on Thu, 21 Jan

Joking apart (he lives in a house on a such a street) he's thinking of getting an EV, and I serious doubt the 240v supply which is daisy-chained along the eaves at the front of the houses on the terrace (fed by what a city-dweller would probably mistake for a telegraph pole) is up to it.

I don't know at what stage someone installing a fast charger in such circumstances has to get permission from the electric company.

Nope.

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 06:13:04 on Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Rod Speed snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com remarked:

It is. Mindful also that 1kWh costs an average of 16p in the UK, which if we multiply up as 18hrs x 365 days, would be a thousand pounds, and very few people have electricity bills that big.

That's not a swinging or telescopic gantry, extended when needed. Its just a traditional pump against the wall.

LOL! There's none so blind as those who will not see!

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 08:41:25 on Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Rod Speed snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com remarked:

Not only is it true, but it's been mentioned by the National Grid as one of the main constraints on the rollout of electric cars.

Not everyone is cooking their dinner at the same time (or are even at home). Quite a lot will also be cooking with gas.

You're the one that needs glasses if you 'think' that either of those two pumps have a swinging or telescopic gantry, extended when needed.

In fact they just have a hose like the current pumps do.

Bearing in mind that in your first reply you said it was "just a traditional pump against the wall", when there are two pumps on an island, neither of them against a wall, my comment was more than justified.

I'll let others decide which of us is right, and whether those two long overhead arms swing out as needed, or whether "they just have a hose like the current pumps do".

Bullshit it is with the stupid claim being discussed.

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 17:47:10 on Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Rod Speed snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com remarked:

They've got all the data.

There's probably more cooking with gas now than there ever was.

Very expensive compared to gas. And once again, not on simultaneously in every house in the street.

Bless! "The wind is always blowing somewhere"

In message <rue92o$55i$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 10:23:20 on Fri, 22 Jan

That's another diversity issue, and as you say, one that's rather suspect.

However, given that the street wiring in much of the country is sized for 2kW per premises, and they don't burn out very often, we can conclude just from that evidence, that substation->premises diversity does in fact work.

Just like the 15kW diversity in my house works (I haven't blown a main fuse, ever) but if I added even an entry level 7.4kW EV wallbox I think it probably would [blow the fuse]. I'm investigating getting it upgraded to 100A as a result.