Still can’t figure the wisdom of doing all this stuff when their first consideration should be having enough(reliable) electric power for justifying all the electric vehicles they say we will have. Without adequate power generating supplies we are screwed.
“Still can’t figure the wisdom of doing all this stuff when their first consideration should be having enough(reliable) electric power for justifying all the electric vehicles they say we will have. Without adequate power generating supplies we are screwed.”
Instead of having enough for “all”, they might only have enough electricity for 90%.
“There is not enough electrical power in the United States to power the cars if everyone converts to EVs.”
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48
Look at the graph U.S. electricity generation by energy source. Anything within and above the sinusoid curve for natural gas is potentially available for car recharging.
Let’s us underestimate at say 50,000 megawatts for eight hours, or 50,000,000khw for eight hours.
That’s somewhere around ~4kwh (~16 miles per day) for about 100 million cars.
It comes fairly close. It’s going to be decades to replace the gasoline car fleet. There’s time to build more natural gas power plants.
The shortages we've witnessed just months into JoeBlow’s admin are just the beginning. They are assured under socialism and will only get worse.
The internal combustion engine and affordable gas represent unacceptable freedom, freedom that must come under state control.
When EV become the predominant feature of our transportation, rationing of electricity is guaranteed. Just as the Soviets made life less bad in Moscow and miserable in the country, count on more or less sufficient electricity in rat cities and extreme poverty in rural America due to electricity shortages.