E-Car Grid Story

 I sat and read through this piece on Wattsupwiththat this morning.

The British government is finalizing some regulations on E-Cars/charging stations, and it's a bit curious how they word this.

The regulation concerns the chargers you have in your home/apartment building.  When you go out and purchase your  home-charger (I'd assume if you already have one, you'd have to bring the electrician in to 'correct' it in some way), it has to be set to be OFF for nine hours on work-days (Mon-Fri). 

Why?  Well....fear of blackouts is apparently the prescribed reason.  No one is sure if the grid can handle the 'pressure'.

The chargers on motorways or in public locations?  Oddly enough, exempt.

If you were curious about how many E-Cars exist in the UK?  Well....they suggest it's around 300k.  

This is one of those topics that the Germans haven't brought up, and you have to wonder about.

Back in August, the Germans noted they'd finally reached the one-million level on E-cars.  In my village?  I'd take an educated guess that there are at least forty of the cars. 

This grid max-out situation?  You would assume that PhD-types have sat down....added the numbers and come to some ratio of sorts (X number of E-Cars, required charge for 3 hours, and current grid capability).  

I would say this....somewhere between 2028 and 2032....I generally expect some 2-hour shutdown in the German grid, which is cryptically explained to the public the next day.  Ten days after that....I expect some German in authority to announce a similar limit regulation on hours in the day that you can charge the E-car at home (probably mandating it has to be after 10 PM).  

Eventually (six months after this event)....some truth-commission will be formed and conclude that the German grid isn't capable of handling a majority of cars being battery-type, and some massive high-cost renovation program has to take place (in a hurry).