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Default True cost of "filling" an electric car?

In article , Andrew
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On 05/04/2016 14:02, Mr Macaw wrote:


Only if we all started at once. What will really happen is it will take
decades for everyone to take them up, and the substations will be
gradually upgraded. And since the electric companies are making a lot
more money, they can spend that on the transformers.

ROFL. The RECS will be 'persuading' the government to force electric
car owners to have a smart meter and either charge them all the missing
fuel duty and car tax via their leccy bill, or simply tell the meter to
instruct the car to stop charging when a brownout situation occurs.

An interesting analysis from today's telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2...d---elon-musks
-electric-cars-arent-about-to-save-th/
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bert