What David MacKay thinks about electric vehicles
Physicist. Professor at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to his death in 2016, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2009 to 2014. Wrote Sustainable Energy — without the hot air (2008), which he published free at withouthotair.com.
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2 dated positions, 2008, in their own words. Our reading of what David MacKay has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSwitching to electric cars is already a good idea, even before the electricity supply is greened.
Their wordsSo I conclude that switching to electric cars is already a good idea, even before we green our electricity supply.
↗Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk 14th of 27 in this piece
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Their wordsIf we ramp up electric vehicles at the same time as ramping up wind power, roughly 3000 new vehicles for every 3 MW wind turbine, and if we ensure that the charging systems for the vehicles are smart, this synergy would go a long way to solving the problem of wind fluctuations.
↗Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk 20th of 27 in this piece