What happens when everybody has an EV, supposedly, and there isn’t enough electricity to supply these vehicles?
Costs will rise from that $1.50 to $12.00, or something.
It’s going to rise just the same for me to cook my supper. It will go from 25 cents to $3.00.
It will be impoverishing for all around.
Anybody who can’t foresee the corollary rise in costs for other activities that use electricity is an idiot.
The problem is we’re phasing out an abundant electric generating resource (coal) and getting more dependent on a less abundant resource (nat gas) which will continue to ramp up in price with demand.
The ChiCom approach of building lots of new coal plants may be pretty economical. Especially if they can attain hegemony over Australia for their supply.
Absolutely. In California they have already asked residents to avoid charging your electric vehicle amid power grid strain...
So is anyone who thinks that electrical generation and transmission capacity is finite.
“What happens when everybody has an EV, supposedly, and there isn’t enough electricity to supply these vehicles?”
When Ford had his Model-T’s rolling off the assembly line there was ZERO service stations.
What happens when we deplete all the required Rare Earth Elements from the planet’s crust in a few years?
In California they are asking people to not charge their EVs because of a power shortage. Now multiply the number of EVs by 10 or 100 or more. There are hours long lines at the public charging stations now. So we buy a $60,000 car to save $60 at the pumps and then put another $15,000 or more for new batteries in 10 years.
Fast charging isnt free either.