Letters to the editor - December 22, 2023
Today's letters by Times of Malta readers
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Today's letters by Times of Malta readers
A MARKET that promotes the local businesses within the community of a town has celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Tesla vehicles at charging stations outside a store in Rocklin, California, America Credit: Bloomberg/David Paul Morris SIR – It is proposed that electric car owners could connect their cars to the National Grid and allow the energy in their batteries to take some of the load at peak times (report, July 28). But such use would seriously compromise battery life. A typical lithium-ion battery has a life of about 1,000 cycles. For a car like a Tesla S, a 100kWh battery costs about £10,000. So each charge cycle costs £10 – or 10p per kWh – in battery wear and tear alone. This sum of 10p p...