As take-up of electric vehicles continues to accelerate, lighting engineers may need to play a key leadership role in discussions around how to manage, and balance, the growing demands this will place on our electrical infrastructure. You just need to look around our streets and highways to see that electric vehicle (EV) take-up and usage is increasing fast. According to the House of Commons Research Service, the number of ultra-low emissions vehicles in the UK, which includes EVs, rose from just 9,000 in the first quarter of 2010 to some 317,000 by the second quarter of last year. National Grid has also predicted that the number of EVs on our roads could be as many as 10.6 million by 2030 and a whopping 36 million by 2040. Figures we have seen at Zeta, given to us by Oxford University, show a similar trend, suggesting uptake is going to increase by 50% a year year-on-year. So the uptake curve is very much an exponential one.
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