[morini]

I say it every time I see this crap. Where in the hell are they going to generate all the extra electricity to meet demand? Most countries run very high 90's percent capacity of their electric grids.  God it used to register when everyone in the country switched the kettle on to make a cup of Joe at half time in soccer matches can you imagine the demand at 6 pm when everyone gets home from work and plugs the family saloon in for the night!!!

Maybe they will build another 100 Coal fire power stations to meet that demand!!!!

Exactly this people! Neil sees it ^^^^

I regularly have friendly arguments with a tree hugger colleague on my current client site - he's actually a really good bloke and we get on well (doesn't stop me from trying to wind him up at every opportunity though). 

Electric vehicles are NOT the answer and probably never will be as the world has no means to generate enough clean electricity to make them viable. It might make the individuals who pay an exorbitant premium on purchase price feel better about themselves, but if they think it through they are actually making the situation worse, not better. Using an electric car is simply moving the problem from the point of consumption of energy to the point of production of energy (i.e sweeping it under the carpet). I read somewhere that running a 100% electric car would push more CO2 into the atmosphere than running a petrol car assuming the energy used by the electric car was produced by a coal fired power station. As all electric vehicles energy consumption is effectively "new demand" then it follows that all of the energy used to power them will ultimately be provided by coal. Until such point that there are no coal fired power stations on earth that will always be true.

Hydrogen fuel cells look promising, but until they become technically viable the only real answer for now is for everyone to try and reduce the amount petrol and diesel they use. With this approach in mind it makes hybrid vehicles (the F1 regenerative variety not the "plug in" charge from the grid type) a very sensible and worthy approach. In purely simplistic terms they convert wasted energy into useful energy which is then used to increase the distance you can travel on the same quantity of conventional fuel thereby genuinely reducing the amount of CO2 pumped into the atmos. What I'm saying is, at this point in time regenerative hybrid vehicles are actually better for the environment than purely electric vehicles. Boris can't see this though as he is banning hybrids from 2035 as part of his latest ill thought out policy. That should tell anyone (who doesn't already realise) exactly what grade of f*ckwit Boris Johnson really is. Oh, and don't think we the consumers are going to be financially better off with "cheaper to run" EV's because all that tax her maj guvmunt no longer gets from petrol and diesel has to come from somewhere else. I wonder where?

<TL;DR>
Don't think electric vehicles are cleaner for the environment - they're not.

<rant over>