Posted on 10/02/2023 4:17:32 PM PDT by DFG
A $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, will help satisfy the Biden administration’s efforts to get everyone into an EV.
It also will help extend the life of a coal-fired power plant.
Resource Adequacy Panasonic broke ground on the facility last year. The Japanese company was slated to receive $6.8 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, which has been pouring billions into electric vehicles and battery factories as part of its effort to transition America away from fossil fuels.
The Kansas City Star reports that the factory will require between 200 and 250 megawatts of electricity to operate. That’s roughly the amount of power needed for a small city.
In testimony to the Kansas City Corporation Commission, which is the state’s equivalent of the Wyoming Public Service Commission, a representative of Evergy, the utility serving the factory, said that the 4 million-square-foot Panasonic facility creates “near term challenges from a resource adequacy perspective,” according to the newspaper.
As a result, the utility will continue to burn coal at a power plant near Lawrence, Kansas, and it will delay plants to transition units at the plant to natural gas.
Not Happy And environmentalists are not happy about that.
The situation reflects an ignored fact about EVs — they require enormous amounts of energy to produce.
A 15-pound lithium-ion battery holds about the same amount of energy as a pound of oil. To make that battery requires 7,000 pounds of rock and dirt to get the minerals that go into that battery. The average EV battery weighs around 1,000 pounds.
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zero emmissions
A pound of oil equals how much gas?
Gasoline weighs 6 pounds per gallon.
EC
Diesel weighs 6.7 pounds per gallon.
EC
Electric vehicles are great on golf course and okay for short commutes in town. Very bad for longer travels.
Wind mills will power the plant..I’m sure.
EV's have their place in certain situations. But they fail in the "environment" test.
Kansans electricity bills will go up between 9-24% and the EV battery plant will increase the probability of black outs.
FJB
“zero emmissions”
Don’t forget, “Saving the Erf!”
Indeed they do...
There’s a reason why early on in the history of automobiles we moved from electric to gas vehicles.
The IRONY! It BURNS!
A full tank of gas in my minivan is about 100 lbs. It only hauls payload when I need it to. The rest of the time ot loafs.
As President Trump has stated.. "WE MUST BECOME ENERGY INDEPENDENT, by LOWERING COSTS, to ONCE AGAIN make ourselves NUMBER #1."
Energy company ‘doubling down on costly, dirty coal’ to power massive EV battery plant
4 gallons of gas has more energy then the entire electric Ford F-150 battery.
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