Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT
by pmontra on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:50PM
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Houses could have their own charging stations. I guess all the cars will need to be charged during the night, in parallel.
Parking garages could add charging stations for all their customers and get paid for that.
Parking places on the streets could be equipped with charging stations, one per place. It's going to be more complicated than laying fiber optics but doable. It's a new grid as big as the current one and for higher wattage.
Finally, if you have to park where there are no charging stations, oops.
Gas stations that can refill N cars per hour will be able to recharge a fraction of them, bad news for those businesses.
Of course this is true only if we'll have to charge. If battery swap becomes common then the problem will be solved. Yet, the volume and the weight of a battery is still greater than the volume and weight of the gasoline storing the equivalent energy. The logistics will be more complicated. I expect to see power plants dedicated to charging: charge batteries -> load them on a truck -> deliver to "EV stations" -> bring back the exhausted batteries -> check if they're still OK -> loop again.
Parking garages could add charging stations for all their customers and get paid for that.
Parking places on the streets could be equipped with charging stations, one per place. It's going to be more complicated than laying fiber optics but doable. It's a new grid as big as the current one and for higher wattage.
Finally, if you have to park where there are no charging stations, oops.
Gas stations that can refill N cars per hour will be able to recharge a fraction of them, bad news for those businesses.
Of course this is true only if we'll have to charge. If battery swap becomes common then the problem will be solved. Yet, the volume and the weight of a battery is still greater than the volume and weight of the gasoline storing the equivalent energy. The logistics will be more complicated. I expect to see power plants dedicated to charging: charge batteries -> load them on a truck -> deliver to "EV stations" -> bring back the exhausted batteries -> check if they're still OK -> loop again.