Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road to net zero emissions

Re:Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road t... by onion2k on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:04AM (#25134616)

Bumping that to ~20min isn't a dealbreaker.

Imagine you turn up to a charging station behind 4 other cars, and there's 2 charging points. Your 20 minute wait is now an hour. If each car took 10 minutes then you'd only be waiting 20 minutes.

Increasing the average waiting time in a queue has a terrible impact on throughput.

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Re:Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road t... by glogla on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:03AM (#25135849)

In isolation yes. But holistically the "charging station instead of gas station" equation has more factors - you have to discount

- everyone who can charge at home (i.e. anyone with a garage or their own driveway),

- those who change in public places like shopping malls or at work, and

- any other infrastructure (like the "charging port in street light" thing)

so the new "gas station" is likely to get less busy - depending on home ownership in the area and how many shopping malls get charging ports, most cars might only ever visit "gas station" on a road trip.

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Re:Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road t... by markburns on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:38AM (#25135675)

I’d imagine that the number of charging points would increase somewhat to accommodate that. Presumably the number of pumps at a station is a function of required throughput.

I also think there will be a lot more roadside individual charging stations rather than specialised large locations that are convenient because of the centralised storage of a physical liquid.

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Re:Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road t... by onion2k on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:45AM (#25135726)

I’d imagine that the number of charging points would increase somewhat to accommodate that.

Sure, but that's limited by land in cities and electrical infrastructure in more rural areas. Whether there'll ever be enough charging points to make charging your car not be a hassle is something only time will tell.

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