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Originally Posted by Damien
We have to upgrade the infrastructure anyway. Oil is running out and will become more expensive the closer to get to that point. We're running these things on a resource which is finite, polluting and comes from volatile sources which makes the supply of it insecure. We can replace this with energy that is flexible, can be renewable, can be clean, more efficient and produced nationally. It's entirely logical.
It does take a while, we have a while.
As for it being obsolete well it's more likely to be done so by driverless cars than something replacing electricity as a medium. The production of electricity or it's final delivery method is easier to swap around.
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It's the infrastructure which is the problem unlike a petrol station which from a very small site can refuel hundreds of vehicles fully and within a few minutes. We're going to need to install sufficient on road charge points at every address which doesn't have space for their own, not to mention workplaces, public buildings etc. That's going to be massively costly and take years. It's that investment in time and money which risks being undermined or rendered needless by possible advances in alternative technology in the meantime. As I said, getting stuff installed in the ground is what takes the time and costs all the money to build and maintain. Who's going to pay for that unless there's a decent return on the investment? Either we pay through taxes or the prices we pay for our electricity or probably both. Either way, the carrot of cheap car charging is a convenient illusion for those who're forcing change. They also have to replace all the tax derived from fuel sales from somewhere else - guess where...