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The idea of putting goods on the railways often comes up until you work out the logistics .
They spent £ Billions upgrading the rail line into Felixstowe dock , [ the biggest container port in the country ] , & can now carry thousands more containers every week .
But the end result is that about 7% of total goods movements are now by rail , up from about 4% . And there is no way that the figures can go much higher over the country as a whole .
As for EVs . There is not the generation capacity or charge infrastructure to cope with more than a small percentage of the total number of vehicles .
Through the Winter months , if about 5% of the total vehicles were EVs & plugged in to the grid at the same time , [ might just cope with 10% in Summer time ] ,
then widescale blackouts . And the grid cannot be restarted until they are unplugged , [ which is why they want you to go "Smart Meters" , so they can cut out the high loads to restart the grid ]
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