Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: SeekAndFind

“There is not enough electrical power in the United States to power the cars if everyone converts to EVs.”

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48

Look at the graph U.S. electricity generation by energy source. Anything within and above the sinusoid curve for natural gas is potentially available for car recharging.

Let’s us underestimate at say 50,000 megawatts for eight hours, or 50,000,000khw for eight hours.

That’s somewhere around ~4kwh (~16 miles per day) for about 100 million cars.

It comes fairly close. It’s going to be decades to replace the gasoline car fleet. There’s time to build more natural gas power plants, and to install solar-based recharging systems in and around daytime workplaces.


12 posted on 06/04/2021 8:09:24 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]


To: Brian Griffin

Sounds like a liberal wet dream based on no reality.


20 posted on 06/04/2021 9:14:29 AM PDT by cp124 (Family and friends, pay to play government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies ]

To: Brian Griffin

You are such a liberal troll. Or RINO, or both.
Pushing the left wing agenda on everything from the jab to Electric Vehicles.


26 posted on 06/04/2021 10:08:06 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies ]

To: Brian Griffin

It doesn’t count for the fact that Natural gas will be outlawed creating ten times the demand on electricity, Besides the fact that it takes 10-20 years to get approval for ANY kind of plant from the EPA themselves if at all. The OP here is self evident of this. They are their own enemy with their obstruction.

No... There will not be enough to supply both. The choice will be home heating/cooling/cooking,lights, or the car. There are many many more variables in this concept that the government has not included in their unfeasible fantasy illogical concept. And it is not the first time they have done this by ignoring reality and the true cause and effect.


27 posted on 06/04/2021 2:37:21 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson