Posted on 02/16/2022 9:36:04 AM PST by norsky
EV Charging Insanity
In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time?
ICSC-Canada board member New Zealand-based consulting engineer Bryan Leyland describes why installing electric car charging stations in a city is impractical:
“If you’ve got cars coming into a petrol station, they would stay for an average of five minutes. If you’ve got cars coming into an electric charging station, they would be at least 30 minutes, possibly an hour, but let’s say its 30 minutes. So that’s six times the surface area to park the cars while they’re being charged. So, multiply every petrol station in a city by six. Where are you going to find the place to put them?”
Used Car Market
The average used EV will need a new battery before an owner can sell it, pricing them well above used internal combustion cars. The average age of an American car on the road is 12 years. A 12-year-old EV will be on its third battery. A Tesla battery typically costs $10,000 so there will not be many 12-year-old EVs on the road. Good luck trying to sell your used green fairy tale electric car!
This is not the exact same article but it pretty much says the same thing
Bryan Leyland: Things you know that ain't so - electric cars
It is not useful at the community level. Too much generalization and inefficient configurations are required to meet average needs among those in the community to be cost effective or useful to the community at large. There will always be some shortfall in some aspect of the implementation to render the whole thing worse than oil/petroleum-based solutions.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I cringe every time the Dims promise to transition us completely off of fossil fuels. I always interpret that as jacking up our costs to move us to less dependable energy sources to make their cronies richer.
The standard domestic receptacle in New Zealand is on a 10 amp circuit.
or conked on the head (by an illegal alien)
“..Congratulations on knowing that burning NG in a dual-cycle gas turning making electricity for EV’s is more efficient than burning it in an ICE vehicle...”
LOL...entropy gets em...every time.
And, lo and behold, the author of the article appears to be from ... New Zealand!
Yea, they have different electrical standards in New Zealand, who would have thought???
I thought you said they didn’t exist?
Australia uses the same outlets. According to Wikipedia, this outlet was designed by Harvey Hubbell Inc, of the USA (still in business today as “Hubbell”.)
That likely explains why this outlet looks very similar to ones used in the USA for electric dryers and ranges (NEMA 10-30R and 10-50R).
I have one in my box van (U.S.) also.
Yeah! Free Beer Tomorrow!
<>It’s not so much Biden, but the environmental wackos who think you really don’t need an automobile anyway.<>
Correctamundo. Command and control society into EVs, then ration the juice. Small towns and suburbs? Poof, gone.
EVs will make the totalitarian dream come true.
That’s ridiculous, V8 is a meat eater
Looks so sad, double sad.
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