Plus as more and more go electric, the infrastructure for charging grows also as business invests in it.
But of course, our ridiculous planning system (Computer say No) prevents the installation of a grid with the capacity to deliver the charging stations and other needs required by greater electrification.
A little while ago, I was listening to the CEO of a company which had built charging stations along motorways and they could not be supplied with current at sufficient levels. Why not? Because the existing grid structure was woefully inadequate to supply the current required and upgrading would need new pylons. Planning obstruction meant they were told that it would be sometime in the next decade. It is the same story with some wind farms which have been built but can not operate at optimum levels because the grid between Scotland and England is not adequate to carry the load they would impose in sending power to where it is needed. These installations are paid to stop producing power at times. This is completely bonkers and I am glad this government has immediately cottoned on to the cause of so much delay in providing vital infrastructure, be it housing, power lines, wind farms and more besides. I have much more respect for Rayner having heard her scorn the idea that the welfare of newts must take precedence over the welfare of people who need housing. I didn't vote for them, but they are certainly right about the planning system. If a bat or a newt might be inconvenienced, you won't be allowed to build or develop on land.
Someone put a great essay up a while back which pointed out how much money is wasted in UK projects in complying with massive amounts of over regulation and planning nonsense. Building a nuclear station, or any large project costs several times more in this country than other comparable countries, because of gold plating of regulations and ridiculous planning rules.
If we had been allowed to extract gas from the Bowland Basin a few years back, we would not be paying the price we are right now for power generated as it must be, from time to time, from gas.
In the same time since that fracking nonsense debate was frothing here, America has gone from energy dependence on other countries to become the biggest gas exporter and a big oil exporter using the same technology. We have hundreds of years supply of gas under our feet and we are buying compressed gas (very energy inefficient) from the other side of the world.
If I was in charge, we would have nationalised it, and hired on a per cubic meter basis the gas industry to extract it, paying them a fee to be agreed per cubic meter. I would have banned sale abroad and we could use it cheaply as we need it to support our carbon free generation. Gas is low carbon anyway - loads better than coal - only the green extremists don't acknowledge that and however much wind and solar we build, we can't get by in winter without gas for when the winter high pressure systems arrive.