Charging an electric car in the future.

[scottyp123]

I was looking at a few deals on electric cars and there is a fairly good one on the Leaf at the moment which got me thinking about charging all these electric cars up in the future. I've read various threads about the infrastructure not being up to the job and not enough power station etc.

But lets assume that it all goes mainstream and it all copes its a pretty safe bet that electric is going to have a fuel duty added on to it so the government still gets the revenue stream but if all the cars are now electric that would mean that petrol and diesel will be practically worthless and the price will drop loads will it not?

So with that in mind would the smart money be to buy a generator to charge your car up and fuel it with the new cheap petrol or diesel knocking about or is it likely the cost of it will never fall below the price that red diesel is at the moment.

Yes I have thought about the irony of using a "clean" electric vehicle and charging it with dirty prehistoric fuel but that wouldn't bother me at all.

[dogbucket]

As per the news in the last few days they would most likely charge car journeys per mile rather than taxing the energy source. Long term I think fossil fuels will become more expensive as usage drops and they become rarer.

[ZesPak]

scottyp123 said:

So with that in mind would the smart money be to buy a generator to charge your car up and fuel it with the new cheap petrol or diesel knocking about or is it likely the cost of it will never fall below the price that red diesel is at the moment.

Or, get this, someone buys a really big, more efficient generator. And then supplies power to more people to charge their car at an even lower rate.
Now that would be something!

[anonymous-user]

Solar. Windmill.

[Throttle Body]

The price of petrol & diesel isn't going to drop significantly because most of its price is tax, not the fuel itself. And just because we reduce our petrochemical usage doesn't mean the rest of the world will do the same. There is plenty of demand coming on stream from other parts of the world. The world will remain in the Oil Age for a few more decades yet, I think.