Listeners to the BBC Today programme this morning will have heard the interview with Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), about the company’s plans to introduce several new lines of electric and electric hybrid cars. In the course of the interview, Speth dropped three bombshells that threaten to …
Read More »UK needs 7,000 specialist charging stations for its switch to electric cars
Taken alongside the Paris climate targets, the UK government decision to ban new internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) from 2040 implies that almost all of the cars on Britain’s roads will be electric by 2050. Insofar as anyone has focused on the impossibility of achieving this aim, they have tended …
Read More »Electric cars: more disruptive than we bargained for
The UK is the latest in a growing list of countries to announce bans on petroleum vehicles. This has led to understandable concerns about the ability of national electricity grids to cope with the massive demand for additional electricity that such a ban implies. The thinking appears to be that …
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