Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t michel – Remember when we used to laugh about Soviets queuing for years to purchase a Lada?
Petrol cars ‘rationed to meet eco targets’
Warning comes as consumer demand for expensive electric cars continues to wane
Matt Oliver, INDUSTRY EDITOR 2 September 2024 • 9:32pm
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Robert Forrester, chief executive of Vertu Motors, said manufacturers were delaying deliveries of cars until next year amid fears they will otherwise breach quotas set for them by the Government.
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He said: “In some franchises there’s a restriction on supply of petrol cars and hybrid cars, which is actually where the demand is.
“It’s almost as if we can’t supply the cars that people want, but we’ve got plenty of the cars that maybe they don’t want.
“They [manufacturers] are trying to avoid the fines. So they’re constraining the ability for us to supply petrol cars in order to try and keep to the government targets.”
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Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/02/manufacturers-ration-petrol-cars-hybrid-electric/
Even if people caved to this arrogant government coercion, Britain does not have the spare electricity to charge hundreds of thousands of new EVs.
A home EV fast charger uses around 10Kw. Half a million EVs plugged in at home around dinner time would draw 10Kw x 500,000 = 5,000,000 Kw = an additional 5GW from the grid. Spare generation capacity the UK simply doesn’t have.
UK faces 7.5GW energy generation crunch in 2028
Old resources are retiring, while new resources are slow to arrive
February 27, 2024 By Peter Judge
By 2028, the UK will face a power crisis as the grid’s guaranteed capacity will be less than power demands, according to a new report.
The crunch on capacity will be at its tightest in 2028, reaching 7.5GW, because the country is retiring old capacity faster than new resources can be brought online.
The situation is made worse by increasing demand for power, and delays to the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, according to a report from power plant operator Drax.
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Read more: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-faces-75gw-energy-generation-crunch-in-2028/
California has shown us what happens when the grid runs out of power. EV owners go to the back of the queue.
The burden of this latest green brainstorm will disproportionately affect poor people. It will drive up the cost of older gasoline vehicles, as people hang on to old vehicles longer.
The wealthy will not be impacted by vehicle sale rationing – no automobile dealer in their right mind would turn down a hundred thousand pound profit on the sale of a premium vehicle, if all they have to do to protect themselves from quota penalties is tell an ordinary person their vehicle has been delayed.
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