Not enough electricity to power cars – Yorkshire Post Letters

Rumours abound that we will all be forced to have electric cars by 2030.

I have two comments to make about that – the first is we were told diesel cars were good and then sometime later that they 
are bad and that mantra continues. The second and most important point is where is 
all the electricity coming 
from?

We have five nuclear power stations due to close in the next three to five years and only Hinkley nuclear power station, in Somerset, being built with a Government guarantee of three times the current cost of electricity. The private sector pulled out of the Wylfa Nuclear project, on Anglesey, on cost 
and continued reliance on wind and solar’s intermittent generation is clearly not the answer.

It is estimated we would need to produce 50 per cent more power than currently just to power electric cars, to say nothing about the cost of infrastructure.

We have not had a coherent energy policy form either Conservative or Labour for over 20 years.

If they want it to work, it is time to wake up and make some urgent investment in the generation industry.

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