The barest necessities of life have a carbon footprint of about 2 tonnes/year CO2.

55 tonnes a year is far from uncommon in US lifestyles.

It’s why the price of helium is rising. 

How much CO2 does discovering, extracting, transporting, refining and transporting fossil fuels put into the environment?

(About an extra 1/7th on top of what gets sent out the exhaust pipes)

“Can’t store hydropower”
The UK can store up to 18GWh of generation in pumped storage hydro

The UK now has 13GWh of large lithium batteries installed in cars.
A bunch of them are set up to charge when power is cheap (or you are even being paid to take the excess power). Another bunch are set up to do that, and release…

Rivian has already delivered customer vehicles - to Amazon

62 covers 61.5 to 62.4, so yeah, definitely close enough

14 lbs = 1 stone = 6.3 kg

“If things go sideways”

Things are already going sideways.
That’s why we are having to dump fossil-fuelled transport.

-40degC = -40
0degC = freezing
20degC pleasant room temperature
40degC = 100degF

You do have a universal charging standard in the USA - it’s called CCS

Tesla even uses CCS in Europe

Most of the value of an EV is in the battery pack.
Swapping your 98% good-condition pack for a 45% good-condition pack is not a good idea.

Renault, for years, only allowed you to lease batteries.

The Renault Fluence was a mid-size sedan based round swappable batteries.
BetterPlace (iir the name c) was a battery-swap chain.
The Fluence is no longer on the model roster
BetterPlace went belly up.

The Tesla S Burberry looks to be the next stage then

In Scotland, a plaid is a garment. The weave-pattern is “tartan”.

Electrify America are VW charging stations, even if they don’t stick “VW” on the logo

The grid is designed around *peak* demand. The vehicle fleet can go 60% electric before you need to add any more generating capacity.

So what you need is grid stabilisation - basically a lot of charge storage, for when there is excess production.

Currently there is about 18 GWh of pumped storage capacity on the UK…

In the UK, I expect range anxiety to start being a thing for ICEVs by about 2025/2026, due to the lowered petrol/diesel sales causing more petrol stations to close.

And rigmarole was itself originally a type of legal paerwork - it had a bunch of tatters at the bottom, a little like the tear-off strips at the bottom of paper notices on (physical) bulletin boards, but with strings and knots

“Then there’s the electricity infrastructure...where’s the build-up for this increased load on the grids?”

In the UK, Ford will *only* sell you a Mach-E online