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Originally Posted by crmalcolm
Not sure where that figure has come from?
Tesla Superchargers currently average 8.8 units per site
Included in this is the Park Royal site, that has 16 units at up to 250kW each.
Taking just the Tesla installations, without impacting the rest of the location then there is typically 2.2 MW available, not the 300 kW you are claiming?
If a Future Energy Scenario quotes just £million for the necessary EV points, if done in a single year that would only cost each taxpayer £10 - and it's not going to happen overnight.
If the result is cheaper motoring, then everyone actually saves in the long run (both financially and other ways) in what is a positive step in so many ways that it seems to scare people.
I'm still struggling to understand why people knock progress so much? Fear of change, worries about being left behind, traditional values?
There must be a reason why individuals are willing to just accept the current normal as being 'as good as it gets', when history teaches us every day that things will progress and improve as our understanding grows?
It doesn't mean we have to abandon the former technology - EV's are not a threat to historical vehicles once they are embraced and accepted as complementary instead of continuing blinkered campaigns against their development. |
Most sub stations in towns are rated at 50KVA or smaller .
A large industrial one , connected directly to the main very high voltage grid could be rated at 200KVA , which is not quite large enough for the 300 KW total I quoted .
There are bigger ones , and they could be made for the 600 or 700 Volt rating , but the price goes up enormously .
So your [ up to ] 2.2 MW is probably just the usual Tesla thing whereby the charge rate is reduced when several vehicles are connected at the same time , and total output is considerably less .
And as for cheaper motoring , pull the other one .
If it wasn,t for the tax on road fuels , then just about everything on running an EV would be more expensive .And why should taxpayers , some who do not drive , have to pay all of the EVs subsidies .