Electric cars and Eskom – Will this work in SA? | Wheels24
Shell SA recently announced that they will be launching the first electric vehicle charging stations in their retail network this year, starting with a small number and building up as demand grows. 'No resources at present'
Jeff Osborne of Gumtree Automotive believes that, while EVs are a necessary and natural progression for the auto industry, it’s highly unlikely there will significant adoption locally any time soon."Aside from the very obvious supply issues, we don't have the resources at present and, with more tariff hikes on the cards, electricity is brutally expensive," he says.
"Plugging an electric vehicle into your home uses an amount of energy equivalent to adding three houses to the grid. This pressure increases should the owner install dedicated electric charging stations to charge more quickly," Osborne says."Whereas a modest home draws about 3000 watts of energy at most, some electric vehicles can draw 16 800 watts off a fast charger.
"Considering that it will take you 8-12 hours to charge your car once the battery is flat and that you will only be able to travel 150-200kms off that charged battery, you might be recharging your car fully every single night.""We do have to lower carbon emissions and reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, so a switch to EVs or their equivalent is inevitable and we have to plan for it.
"This is known as flexfuel. And biodiesel has been used since the 1870s and is made from recycled cooking oil. There are plenty of promising options in this space," Osborne concludes.
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