stevieturbo
RMS Regular
Do you think there should be more chargers or not?
As for scale, National Grid has already confirmed generation can cope with the demand, even at the most advanced scenario, you are right in some ways though that local grid reinforcement for high power to the 50kW/100kW plus sites, this is normal, the issue in Northern Ireland is the entire cost formthat is passed to the person/company requesting, in ALL other jurisdictions this is not the case, the Regulator has remit for decarbonisation and therefore provide assistance in this area, Typically costs in GB and Ireland are 40% of what they are in NI. NI Utility Regulator doesnt have decarbonisation as part of its remit currently, so can't resolve this, DfI and DfE need to change this, UR are open to it, NIEN (who are responsible for those connections) are open to it, Stormont continue to sit on their hands, the recently annonuced Energy Strategy is disappointing in its scope and ambitions.
Not sure I (and many others agree), active travel, followed by efficient and effective (and affordable) Public transport are very effective in protecting the environment, so investments in these areas are very welcome, However with 83% of travel in NI by car, and with 2030 just over 7 years away, investment in the Public charging infrastructure is vital and urgent. But as ever progress in NI is glacial.
So what are your thoughts on what needs to happen, rather than just pointing out what you see as problems ?
There will be more charges when the market needs them. If they are not there, they must not be a viable business yet. If they are viable...why not start up your own charger network ? You'll make a mint ?
Perhaps rent out your home charger and make it available to everyone ? That would create a much larger network already. Not overly fast charging, but could get some people out of a hole.
Charger stats might make more sense per EV, than per population. The entire population do not own EV's
It's a smaller more rural population here.....everything usually costs more and can often be less accessible. Although the population is growing....we can only hope we never turn into a ****hole with millions of people here like some big cities. Almost 2 mil now though for the entire country. Not good.
And dirty empty buses driving around endlessly holding up other traffic, just doesn't seem that clean or efficient ? Yes there will be certain times of the day when they might be full, but the rest of the day they are not.
Now if people believe that electric is clean....why are all the buses here not electric, to lead by example ? Buses are probably one of the easiest vehicles to do electric. They know exactly the route/range they need every day, they're huge, plenty of room for batteries etc etc. But almost none here are ( are there any full electric buses here ? ). Surely there is no excuse for any city based bus not to be electric ?
If they want to encourage people to use buses, are all the park n rides filled with EV chargers for when people park there ? If the network can handle it, and if it would be profitable....again, seems a no brainer ?
Bus companies cry about not making money....well they could make money from people paying to charge, while they pay to use the bus.
Presumably that none of things things are happening, means they are not yet viable, not yet profitable ?