Posted on 11/28/2010 5:55:32 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
I don’t expect a large demand for EV’s until battery technology and life have a quantum leap over what’s available today and until pricing is competitive with GPVs.
We have all charged the batteries on our vehicles at one time or another and some of us have a golf cart we charge, We plug them in and hey don’t create a large draw on the grid. In fact not much more than a light bulb, because they charge slowly.
Will these electric vehicles create a tremendous draw??
If they do then they are going to be really expensive to operate and gasoline will probably be cheaper than the electric bill.
Unintended consequences, or the reason enviroweenies shouldn’t make policy.
Yes, more draw than just charging your 12v battery in your car.
Click keyword EFV, or recharging, for more info.
As long as gasoline remains under $3.00 a gallon, people won’t switch. But at that price point, an EV becomes financially viable.
To a liberal all the world is static. Nothing is connected to anything else.
I didn't realize those electric cars were going to be such a drain on the power grids. Wow, sure looks like we have another ethanol on our hands.
I grew up with 25 cycle electricity, crank (Magnito) phones, no TV, no AC, and sleeping porches. We technology collapses, I won’t like it but will be physiologically better equipped to handle it - at least better than my techno dependent daughter and her family. My wife, who grew up without home electricity, will do better than I.
We all should start in with a "Build Nuke Power Plants NOW campaign" And we can use the "Its for all the electric Cars that America will be driving..." Argument!
Oh really. I suggest you take a look at your electric meter’s spinning disk when you turn on your golf cart’s charger. I have, and my meter spins at least three times as fast. It looks only a bit slower than when my two 4 ton AC units kick in during the summer. There are 6 eight volt batteries in that golf cart, all being charged at the same time.
The energy equivalent to all the gas not burned in the EV's will have to come off the grid. One or two cars on a block, probably OK. If every house has 2 cars, that is a whole lot of energy.
At least the extra load would be largely at night, not during peak hours. But expect your power bill to increase to pay for the new power plants/lines to handle the load.
It is not right that those of us who are already subsidizing the purchases of these things are also being forced to pay more for electricity to help charge them as well.
I disagree.
Instead, let all the neighborhoods go dark where these rubes own these gadgets.
Something else that few people have thought about is recycling 600 pound batteries made from toxic metals. If people are concerned about breaking a 10 watt CFC light bulb, wait until a 600 pound battery is scattered all over the pavement in an automobile accident.
When power grids start blowing all over the place due to EV’s look for the general populace to turn hostile and make the owner’s lives hell.
Also, a car is a pretty large, massive object, requiring a lot more power than a cell phone. How many kWatts does a car require to travel 60 miles.
That will happen. The power companies and the local governments are looking for excuses to jack up the rates.
Earlier threads today will provide you an answer to your question -- and yes, one vehicle alone can more than double your instantaneous draw for an extended period of time. Depending on the car and charger (and other factors) it seems only 2 cars could blow out your pole transformer leaving you powerless until your utility gets a new higher-capacity transformer shipped out and installed.
Look on the bright side. Your utility bill will go down.
The only problem is that nobody is going to buy them now that the cat is out of the bag that they really don’t run on “free” electricity. The outrageous pricetags are another matter entirely.
I’m also curious to see some serious crash testing results. Exactly how durable is that battery when you T-bone it with an F-150 doing 60?? What happens when you run it head-on into a bridge abutment at the same speed??
Anyone want to invest in my natural gas powered generator home charging station business?
Greener than gasoline, cheaper than the grid, no taxes ... yet. 8~)
I’m ahead of T-Bone one this one.
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