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You do realise that UK electricity demand has dropped ~20% over the past 10 years.

Meanwhile the EV fleet has risen to 3.5% of the total car fleet.

To thoroughly abuse statistics, theres an inverse correlation between EV ownership and electricity use.

Here in Norway we have 20% of private cars electrified. No impact on the grid and not a lot on total electricity use. If all energy used in the transport sector were to switch to electricity today it would add about 50% to the demand for electricity. But EVs are about 90% efficient versus about 25% or less for ICE vehicles so in fact it would add less than 15% to the electricity demand.

https://publikasjoner.nve.no/rapport/2023/rapport2023_35.pdf

The issue isn't current electricity use—it's current power use and most power used isn't electricity (by a factor of 4-5x).

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