For me I think the sooner they develop alternatives to burning fossil fuels the better.
How they achieve that I can't really say. I like the idea of electric cars but they are not very practical if your going long distance.
I think if you were to have a generic battery pack for certain sizes of cars then they way forward would be interchangeable battery packs where service stations up and down the country provided a service where one pulled in the pack was dropped out and a fully charged one popped in.
That would need a rolling agreement to lease the batteries but for the end user it would remove the worry of the battery's deteriating over time.
As for the grid not being able to keep up, I think there must be surplus capacity during the night to charge batteries, think how much juice is needed to power all the cookers and kettles at dinner time across the country, that said though expansion would be needed to keep up as more cars went electric.
Where you get that power from bothers me, I don't think nuclear is the answer, far too risky and how do you deal with the waste.
The tidal generation projects make sense to me, it's reliable and reasonably clean.
The other solution is hydrogen but it takes a lot of energy to make so again we have to think about how it's generated.
I know this much though, when the high performance engines become a thing of the past it will be a shame, nothing can excite like the sound of a high performance engine on full chat
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