Good news. Looks like mass electrification is about to begin. None too soon I would say.

Driving an all-electric car for one hour at full speed requires at least about 50kWh.
If (as we all hope) all transport is electrified, we will need at least double the actual electricity production capability.
I hope our politicians will be smart enough to understand they will need a lot of nukes.
Since it takes at least 5 years to build a nuclear power plant, we need to start building yesterday.

I read somewhere that using off peak overnight charging the present US grid could charge 85 million electric cars. No need for new powerplants to get the job done. You also exaggerate the energy use of EVs. Even at freeway speeds I doubt an EV would need over 25kw and possibly quite less than that.

Nukes or not, just because a company is about to release an EV doesn't mean that suddenly, MILLIONS of cars will be replaced by EVs.

The first hybrids pop up in US in 1999-2000, and for the first 4 years, even with limited production, hybrids were hardly moving off the lots. Even with the "perfect" conditions today, hybrids is barely breaking 2% on monthly sales.

The same people who are early-adopters for the hybrids will be those who will buy EVs, and if I have to guess, these people will also be very frugal when it comes to using electricity. I will go on further to say that these people will probably invest their resources into residential power generation to power their own vehicles.

I know that are a lot of people pushing nuclear power here, but EVs will be far less of an impact compare to the McMansions and the 50 inch plasma that are popping up all over the place today.

read this week that mitsubishi only intend to build 1000
in the first year of production and the UK importer has offered
to take 500 of them !

andrrichrose: That article in the Sun also gave 2010 as a ship date. Now it has been changed to 2009. Let's hope the numbers to be produced changes (increases) as well.

Most people are going to plug their cars in sometime between 4pm and 6pm and the car is going to try to charge as quickly as possible,all this during a high load time period.Also nuclear power is not safe.I don't want the spent fuel in my back yard and neither do you.

Please if someone can assist me. I am owing $3000 to the bank and traffic ticket. Please im a 22 year old college student. Could someone out there please help me.

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As anyone who has ever used Economy 7 electricity tariff knows,
you put a timer on the washing machine, storage heater, etc.

We need to accept that we get diminishing returns with battery capacity,
in that beyond a certain point, the extra energy just ends up hauling the
extra weight in batteries.

We just need lots of recharging stations, in shopping centres, airports, etc.
So that we can be charging while we are shopping. Domino's Pizza can deliver portable batteries meant to get you to the nearest charging station.

A range of 50 miles is actually good for 90% of my motoring needs.
50 miles will get me to Stansted airport, but if I'm picking some body up,
then I will need the full recharge time down to about one hour.

Actually, if they can get the full charge time down to 15 minutes,
it is feasible to drive London to Manchester, and recharge using the motorway service stops, while you stretch your legs.

Will the editor please remove the Chad Stanley entry?

The Danish already have enough or near enough wind power to power their whole country. Studies show we have enough wind in three states to power our whole country, or 20 miles off our shores to power our whole country. Why should we even talking about nuclear power?