Posted on 01/16/2022 9:44:54 AM PST by Hojczyk
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?”
The government of the United Kingdom is already starting to plan for power shortages caused by the charging of thousands of EVs. Starting in June 2022, the government will restrict the time of day you can charge your EV battery. To do this, they will employ smart meters that are programmed to automatically switch off EV charging in peak times to avoid potential blackouts.
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“well the scenario with chain-reaction dead EVs is that several thousand EVs take off to evade a disaster at the same time, but many don’t have a full charge and so those give out first, causing the whole gaggle to stall, with the next poorest charged ones giving up the ghost next, and so on until there’d be miles of dead EVs stalled essentially forever, as there’d be no way to perform a mass charge or a mass tow ... especially if all of the emergency vehicles themselves were EVs ... and even if bunches of them did manage to get some distance away, there’s be no way at whatever destination they did mange to reach to recharge that many all at once ...”
Wow, that is scary, and plausible. It may even begin before you say, with the grid going down as everyone tries to charge their cars at the same time.
Luckily there are NEVER traffic jams when people try to evacuate and even if that should happen, well then...Musk has an app for it.
My bad. Tractive force.
“Good luck with those road trips. I guess you have to stay in a hotel with a charging station every 300 miles”
Do you folks do any basic research before typing nonsense?
Chargers are everywhere and growing. I live in a rural area and 3 gas station near me now have chargers..Pilot, Sheetz and Bells.
Here is an all American town of Cleveland charger stats.
Cleveland-Elyria Public Charging Stations
348 Total Stations 34 Free Stations 30 New Stations (90 days) 51 Fast Chargers 12 CHAdeMO Plugs 26 CCS Plugs 24 Superchargers 144 J-1772 Plugs
Top Charging Networks in Cleveland-Elyria
ChargePoint 48 stations Supercharger 24 stations Tesla Destination 17 stations SemaConnect 16 stations
“As long as government helps pay for them, they aren’t competitive”
Like our agriculture industry..the finest, most productive food production system in the world?
Did you see the link where the US govt is giving $52 billion to chip manufacturers in the US to get the industry up and running?
Oil co’s get 20+ billion in subsidies every year in the US
btw I believe Tesla no longer has gov’t subsidies on it’s cars because they make too many.
You are thinking General Motors and Ford
Tesla is different. Tesla already has the largest market share and the cars produced in it’s new Texas factory will obsolete everything you mentioned. The Texas cars will be available very soon.
The new teslas are revolutionary and market disrupting........ all over the world
Electric cars are the problem ruining the cure. Typical leftist foolishness.
You’ve got an extra “0” in your denominator.
“Do you folks do any basic research before typing nonsense?”
You don’t.
I post links to back up what I say
“If the US govt did not subsidize industry we would lose our technological innovation and other countries would run over us in new advances.”
BS. You are obviously not someone who creates anything.
Socialist? Nope. You’re a full-blown COMMUNIST!
You think government creates things and employs people.
“I post links to back up what I say”
You say stupid crap all the time. Links to some information that doesn’t support your conclusions. You’re a communist idiot, as proven by your comments.
“If the US govt did not subsidize industry we would lose our technological innovation and other countries would run over us in new advances.”
I personally have over 40 patents. The organization I work in files over 200 each year. No government subsidies in our multi billion dollar organization. None.
You’re just a communist who has never worked in the private sector, are you?
“If the US govt did not subsidize industry we would lose our technological innovation and other countries would run over us in new advances.”
Government just shutdown our economy for two years, moron.
My wife and I own 3 companies. I refute your bogus assertions with facts so all you have is name calling
nooo....
loL! Commie ping!
BS. You do not own any company. No business owner thinks the government funds innovation and employment.
No business owner thinks the government funds innovation and employment.”
Gov’t does not fund private companies innovation? What planet are you from?? They have done it for years.
You mean all these tech companies getting $110 billion from the gov’t to help fund their R&D research and development? Every country in the world subsidizes their private industry. If our gov’t did not do it we would be at a disadvantage.
“Government just shutdown our economy for two years, moron?
What does that have to do with the govt funding companies?
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