Article by Eric Worrell
h/t michel – Remember when we used to laugh at the Soviets for lining up for years to buy Ladas?
Petrol cars 'rationed to meet ecological targets'
Consumer demand for expensive electric cars continues to weaken, warns
Matt Oliver, Industry Editor September 2, 2024 • 9:32 pm
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Vertu Automotive chief executive Robert Forrester said the manufacturer was delaying vehicle deliveries until next year for fear of violating government quotas for it.
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“In some franchises, the supply of gasoline and hybrid vehicles is limited, and that's actually where the demand is,” he said.
“It's almost like we can't offer the cars that people want, but we have a lot of cars that they probably don't want.
“them [manufacturers] Efforts are being made to avoid fines. As a result, they are limiting our ability to supply petrol vehicles in an effort to meet government targets.
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Find out more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/02/manufacturers-ration-petrol-cars-hybrid-electric/
Even if people gave in to this arrogant government coercion, the UK would not have the electricity to spare to charge hundreds of thousands of new electric cars.
A home electric vehicle fast charger consumes approximately 10 kilowatts. Plugging 500,000 electric cars into your home at dinner time will consume 10Kw x 500,000 = 5,000,000 Kw = an additional 5GW of electricity from the grid. The UK simply has no backup generation capacity.
UK faces 7.5GW energy generation crunch in 2028
Old resources are being retired, while new ones are slowly arriving.
February 27, 2024 Author: Peter Judge
The UK will face a power crisis by 2028 as guaranteed grid capacity will be less than demand, a new report says.
The capacity crunch will reach its peak in 2028, at 7.5GW, as the country retires old capacity faster than new resources can come online.
The situation is worsening due to increased power demand and delays at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, according to a report from power plant operator Drax.
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Learn more: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-faces-75gw-energy-Generation-crunch-in-2028/
California shows us what happens when the grid goes out. Electric car owners are at the end of the queue.
The burden of the latest green brainstorm will disproportionately affect the poor. As people keep older cars longer, this will drive up the cost of older gasoline cars.
Rich people are not affected by rationing of car sales – no car dealer in their right mind would refuse a hundred thousand pounds to sell a high-end car if all they had to do was tell an ordinary person to protect themselves from rationing penalties profit.
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