Times every vehicle in the town or city...
“Times every vehicle in the town or city...”
Not every vehicle will need recharging.
Not every vehicle will need a 72-mile top-up.
Smart chargers could examine the electricity futures market and reserve a charging time.
You are quite right about the need for electricity demand management.
Joe Biden’s let’s get it done now approach may result in the installation of stuff that does not play well together.
Math is racist apparently. A full sized Tesla model S goes 4 miles per kWh. The NHTSA has decades of data that proves the average American drives less than 40 miles per day not just the avg person 80% of all Americans drive less than 40 miles total per day. That means 80% of all Americans will need less than 10kWh per day to cover that distance. Ten kWh is two cloths dryer loads or a two hour roast in the oven or two to three hours of AC use or one half hour of electric heating with resistance heat which 60% of Texans have resistance heaters fyi. Hardly grid crashing the luddites are well luddites.
For those like myself with solar panels on the roof it like having a gas pump that runs for free. My 15kw system has never made less than 100kWh in a day with sunlight that was January with still ten plus hours of daylight. My homes energy use in January is less than 20 kWh per day leaving 80kWh to charge a pack up with. That’s 320 miles worth on the least sunny day of the year. In August with both my HVAC roaring at 68 degrees I use 80 to 90 kWh per day and my panels in the 14+ hours of daylight make nearly 200 kWh. My location gets 220+ days of sunlight per year as recorded by Noaa.gov over a 30 year avg at DFW airport the official climate data. My solar tracker program confirms that in 2020 we had 230 days of sunlight. I could drive a Model S for over 88,000 miles per year just on the excess power coming from my panels on one large time in sunny North Texas. Or I could send that excess to 5 other Tesla cars and they all could drive the avg 12500 miles per year along with my 15,000 miles. That’s one home with 4500+sqft of roof line even a 1500sqft roofline would power a single Tesla for 20,000+ miles per year. Math is hard we know.