Power shortage

We’re being told that in 20 years all cars and bikes will need to be electric. Does that mean cables draped across pavements from houses without garages to charge cars and bikes so people can get to work the next day? Or if you take a trip to the coast, having to stop on the way to charge the vehicle?

And where will the electricity come from? We can only just keep the lights on in winter now with the decommissioning of dirty power stations, yet it will be years before nuclear stations are online to replace them. Then everyone will complain about these new stations, or the wind turbines opposite their houses.

So it’s an electric future then, is it? I’m not so sure it can be delivered — we only have another 20 years to solve this, after all! Chris Playdon