“The city estimates it needs as many as 10,000 electric vehicle chargers to prepare for full electric-vehicle adoption,”
10,000 stations each drawing 220 volts at 48-72 amps. Did anyone talk to the power company about this?
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This will work out wonderfully in California.
Eliminating generation facility’s output, while massively increasing load.
Saying nothing of conductor size and transformer size and metering…
Exactly. Both are big issues. But the power grid is already buckling on hot days. How will people react when they are told to unplug their cars?
But I'll consume less electricity from the grid than I did as recently as a year ago. Why? Because I installed a large solar system onto my house.
That's the only way green energy works: decentralized. When the federal government or state governments try to force it onto us, it fails miserably. But if you do it on your own (or hire a professional to do it), you can tailor it for your specific consumption habits and not try to force a square peg into a round hole like what always happens when government leaders do their one-size-fits-all failures. That's the only reason my solar system will pay for itself in about 13-14 years. (Assuming modest inflation for the power rates as well as the natural gas rate I now avoid with an all electric house and the gasoline price I'll avoid some of with an EV.) If energy prices spike much higher than a respectful 3%-ish inflation rate, it'll pay for itself a lot sooner.
But even then it only works well if you're in an ideal situation (i.e. in the south with lots of sun, a metal roof, part of the roof facing south, no trees shading the roof or dropping sap onto the solar panels, etc.). And even with that it'll never be a 100% weaning off of fossil fuels. Right now I produce a little over 2/3rds of the power I consume. To get that other 1/3rd would be cost prohibitive. If I put an EV onto my load and drive it about 200 miles per week for my normal commute to work and church, my solar would provide a little over half of my power consumed.
But that's with me living in an ideal situation for solar, and with me doing my homework to make it custom for my needs, and with me defining success as it paying for itself in time and removing my budget halfway away from people like Biden making energy costs skyrocket. If you're not going to go through that kind of trouble then green energy isn't for you. If you define successful green energy as being completely off of fossil fuels you might as well believe in the Sooners' defense or other fairy tales. And when the governments force the utilities to go green, they always do it as a total removal from fossil fuels. That's why it fails at the utility level.
Green energy is like everything else: the Dims destroy everything they touch.
Are these stations free to use?
Maybe in 2121, but not now. Ann Arbor has a total of 8 older Tesla superchargers at the local Meijer. Apparently, adding more supercharging stations or upgrading to the faster superchargers isn't a priority.
That should be no big deal man.
It’s only 150+ MEGAWATTS.
?10,000 stations each drawing 220 volts at 48-72 amps. Did anyone talk to the power company about this?”
That’s only 1440 mwh... the average home uses 1.25 kWh.