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To: dakine

“That infrastructure for all those gas/filling stations has to be replaced/mimicked by an Electrical Infrastructure.. “

LOL! Every house is part of the electrical infrastructure!


37 posted on 02/21/2020 1:17:31 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

Which works fine when only a few people in a given neighbourhood has an EV. It won’t be that way when we need to charge every single car in the neighbourhood.


42 posted on 02/21/2020 1:21:22 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: TexasGator; dakine

Charging an EV at home is roughly equivalent to running a hairdryer 24/7 (if that). Most drivers won’t be doing a full charge daily; more like topping off daily from a commute way less than total capacity.

Yes, doing that on EVERY home will require grid upgrades, but is mitigated by slow adoption rates (fair warning, electric companies!) and cultural adoption of low-power replacements for traditionally high-power products (ex.: light bulbs now use about 1/10th of power).


82 posted on 02/21/2020 1:59:40 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Democrats oppose democracy.)
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To: TexasGator

Does ‘LOL’ improve your argument? Replace the gasoline with Electric production and infrastructure... We can talk seriously... Before then you’re a one trick pony.. Cool with me - I make $$$ either way...


113 posted on 02/21/2020 2:35:23 PM PST by dakine
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To: TexasGator

You do realize utility companies have never built neighborhoods with ev charging in mind overnight? The transformers they use aren’t set up to handle a significant portion of people in the block charging cars continuously overnight. They have been undersized transformers and the power company designed it so that overnight the transformers will cool down because they count on very little electricity usage overnight. if they never are able to cool down they will overheat and fail relatively quickly.


124 posted on 02/21/2020 3:19:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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