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Britain
One electric vehicle sold every minute in July as UK car sales rise
2023-08-05
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Didn’t Brits spend last winter in the cold and dark because of blackouts? How, then, will these extra electric cars be powered in winters to come?
  • Some 143,921 new vehicles were registered in July, up 28.3% on a year ago

  • Electric vehicles (BEVs) registrations jumped by almost 88% to 23,010

  • Demand for fleet and business vehicles was biggest driver of sales

  • UK car sales have now risen for 12 months in a row, despite the ongoing consumer squeeze, with demand for electric vehicles gathering pace, industry figures show.
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  Alternate headline: Buggy whips barely keep pace with SUCKERS!
Posted by: Omerelet Smiter of the Huns3087   2023-08-05 23:18  

#7  The History of Technology is the search for more power. Human power, animal power, water powered machinery and then the thing that started to end the practice of human chattel slavery: steam powering the Industrial Age.

What the ecofascists seem to want is a greenerâ„¢ future where the nomenklatura ride in human-powered rickshaws.
Posted by: magpie   2023-08-05 14:19  

#6  Can't wait for the 'Restricted to District' orders to be handed down and implemented wirelessly.

"It's for the Children".
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-08-05 10:53  

#5  I've seen so many Teslas in my North Texas neighborhood I feel the temperature dropping. Only 105 degrees today.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-08-05 10:02  

#4  Uptake by large fleets increased 61.9 per cent to 80,961 vehicles, and business registrations rose 28.7 per cent to 2,915.

Cars bought by privates remained stable at 60,045, up only 0.3 per cent compared to a year ago.

A bit earlier in the article, to go with @#1 magpie:

'Government must pull every lever, therefore, to make buying, running and, especially, charging an EV, affordable and practical for every driver in every part of the country.'

Every lever other than power generation I guess, as NN2N1 points out.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-08-05 09:51  

#3  SOME GENERALITIES

Given the UK had about 2.1+ million registered vehicles of which less than 110,000 were EV's in 2022

Consider adding 2+ Million more EV's. That would demand about 11.52 TWh more power a year from the UK power grid, currently generating about 340TWh at a 74+% load. g .

Considering, about 176TWh of the UK's 340TWh power( 51+/-%) currently comes from NON-Green sources, and it also imports another 6+TWh from the EU Power Grid via under sea cables now.

The UK had better get off it's A$$ and start building Power Generating stations to replace the approx 51% it will shut down.
Given the generally poorly thought out plans and demands, to dump all coal, nukes, oil and gas and go 100% Green in 10 years.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-08-05 08:00  

#2  EVs will do well in UK, you can't drive that far anyway!
Posted by: Roth LaDoad   2023-08-05 00:43  

#1  Demand for fleet and business vehicles was biggest driver of sales
UK and EU tax incentives plus 'back door' (Nice company you have there -- better buy EVs, capiche?) prodding by same ...sounds almost fascist, ecofacist.
Posted by: magpie   2023-08-05 00:10  

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