"NY" wrote in message
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"harry" wrote in message
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On Saturday, 20 August 2016 08:40:52 UTC+1, Brian Gaff wrote:
I expect all those in the eu who live neer a pwoer station which is
where
the increase in pollution will go, to take action if this goes on.

Its a bit like taking all your awkward to dispose of waste to Africa to
keep
it out of your own back yard.
Brian

Most electric cars will be charged at home, by night.
It's the only way the system could stand it.

As I have pointed out to various people several times, that would require
a complete change in house building policy to work

This preference of developers to build estate with communal parking (to
get better land utilisation), and for people to convert their integral
garages into living rooms would have to stop.

all houses would have to be supplied with a proper garage and planning
rules would have to forbid conversion, otherwise people wont have the
facilities to charge up at home - Charging up on the street, unguarded,
overnight just isn't going to work.

And we'd have to get used to changing how we use our cars, because we
could never venture further away from home (or some other place which has
a charging point and where we intend to spend the night) than range of the
car will allow. No more driving a couple of hundred miles in a day when
going to/from holiday or going to see relatives.

And you could only visit people who had a charging point. Do electric cars
generally require specialised hardware at the charging point or can that
hardware be made portable so it can be taken with you and plugged into any
three-pin socket?

Depends on how long you want to wait for the car to be charged.