[allendale]

If 25% of the auto fleet were electric and even if there were enough generating capacity to accommodate all the necessary recharging ( and there isn’t), the transmission distribution systems could not handle all the charging especially if it were done in the evening. The fireworks display would be the transistors on the top of those poles exploding as the system tries to accommodate the prolonged high voltage flow. Those transistors feature the very best of 1940s and 1950s technology.

[Ex gun maker.]

transistors = transformers.

Very basic design, that 50’s tech probably cannot be improved very much although I am sure someone feels a need to add a “Chip” or several.

[sasquatch]

transformers

[TexasGator]

“If 25% of the auto fleet were electric and even if there were enough generating capacity to accommodate all the necessary recharging ( and there isn’t), the transmission distribution systems could not handle all the charging especially if it were done in the evening. “

Actually, there is.

[GranTorino]

Wait till the rebels start disabling the grid.