The trouble with electricity is that it can only be generated efficiently, not stored. Hydrocarbons and biofuels will store their energy potential until the electricity is required. Batteries are still at the Wright Flyer stage (maybe even the Cayley Glider stage). Distribution efficiency is okayish, but not great. Then we need to factor in the cost of replacing the batteries (ie the most expensive part of an EV). Hydrogen gas on the other hand...! Infrastructure wise, pretty much everything is already in place, just as it was with the switch from town gas to natural gas, or four star to unleaded. Time will tell but I'm convinced that H is the future.
Short term though, we have to commence domestic f r a c k ing (mods, PLEASE take this word out of the donker) as fast as our little Ineos will carry us, b'cos otherwise we ain't seeing gas (and therefore electricity) prices come down any time soon.
Here's the problem with that though - southern NIMBYs who wouldn't know a slag heap if their life depended on it - which it used to.
(Just look at that though, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire finally get a break from fuelling the nation : )
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