[MtnClimber]

I could have had a V8.

[bert]

Drivel

Elon Musk and his brilliant assemblage of brains most certainly have the electric problem solution already in the can (cloud storage)

I believe they have already developed small, cheap and safe nuclear generating facilities that will very quickly be brought on line as needed. It may be that several already exist and the property is bought and waiting

[joshua c]

yes EVs are evil

the goal of mandating EVs is to limit personal transportation

public transportation will be the only viable option for most

[texas booster]

BTTT

[central_va]

WHere is the oil lobby? Where are the anti EV commercials?

[Sicon]

What we have arriving, too soon no matter when, is a convergence of an expansion of EVs with what amounts to a powering down of electricity production due to that “mismatch” of resource retirements.

It is a deliberate effort to restrict freedom of movement, and force people into mass transit.

[Wildbill22]

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if these extremists even believe their own propaganda, and this is just to convince the “useful idiots” to vote for their own economic demise.
Pure economics and supply chain issues with the raw materials make their timetables impossible. It simply isn’t going to happen.

So who benefits? Follow the money, after domestic oil production is slashed: OPEC, BRICs nations as the petrodollar is disassembled, ultimately China as the US economy collapses, even Russia as a petro supplier.

I think the disinformation, starting with the global warming crowd, is disingenuous and intentionally malevolent to the US as a great power with the intention of undermining it.

[asinclair]

Let's point to mismanagement on the part of electric utilities regarding battery EVs. There is a parallel situation with adding new industry: when a company wants to build a power-intensive plant, they have to apply to the local electric utility for the amount of power they want to use. Connection is not automatic; the power company has to analyze what needs to be done to supply the juice in terms of generations and transmission.

Battery EVs are a significant additional power drain on the grid. If utilities can prevent adding electric cars before the rest of the infrastructure is upgraded, that would reduce the blackout possibility. (There is also the current ban on battery EVs at multifamily buildings, but that's a different problem.)

But it's not just battery EVs that are the problem. Consider that some locales want to go all electrification in homes and building. Moving from natural gas to electricity adds further load, particularly on peak demand during extreme weather. The utility needs to manage this increase on the grid.

[wjcsux]

There has been a few articles here on FR about people taking cross country trips in EV’s and their experiences with trying to charge them.

[wjcsux]

The EV vs ICE vehicle argument was settled by 1920, EV’s lost.

[Damifino]

Lots of posts here stating EV's are bad.. evil.

None of the evils are of the car itself. It's how people administer the tech.... Kinda like guns.

[Regulator]

California will simply buy nuclear, hydroelectric and hydrocarbon power from the states around it like they have been since the ‘70s.

[NetAddicted]

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