Posted on 03/09/2022 4:59:00 AM PST by Morpheus2009
Not to mention the grid is wide open to terrorist attack.
Great points. Only it really isn’t fair to lump pimps and whores , people who actually work for a living with politicians. Although they are busy stealing our money I wouldn’t call it work.
The main objection should be that the energy needed to charge all those batteries will HAVE to come from burning fossil fuels. Period. No such infrastructure exists that uses solar, hydroelectric or nuclear.
Thus, EVs will not reduce dependency on foreign oil or reduce dependency on burning coal or gas.
Yet, all the nice little Socialist Watermelons either refuse to see it or...simply cannot see it.
Safe and effective.
you beat me to it. Of course pugging a car into 220 for 14 hours is almost nothing! It won’t affect your elec bill either, lol
That’s how I see it. A law like this can easily get rammed through.
“Only Russian war criminals, drug cartel gangsters and terrorists use crypto in secret! All good citizens will be happy to report all transactions on IRS Form 8490-c87. It only takes an hour to fill out. And if you do it wrong, or fail to submit it correctly and on time, it’s 10 years in the federal pen.”
Well Germany’s gas lines are getting threatened by Russia now.
The green movement has been heaving up these adolescent fantasies for several decades now. Charge your car battery with sunshine during the day, discharge it into the grid at night. When do you get to actually drive it somewhere? And what if the sun isn’t shining and the winds are calm, as is often the case in winter? One could go on, but suffice it to say that in the end more than the grid will collapse.
Thanks but you can usually post more than sentence, meaning usually at least 100 words (most sites at least 300) which saves time amidst the 250 articles on each page we can look at and decide where it is worth going to the link to read more.
In the EU, 58% of electricity generation is already carbon neutral. renewable energy-based electricity production causes volatility to the system and requires flexibility, as well as demand response elements to keep the system stable, reliable, and reasonably priced.
Note though that Americans drive 13,474 miles per year versus 7,000 in the UK. and with charging stations far more spread out.
To combat this instability, electric vehicles can provide a vital source of flexibility in the energy system.
"Can" her versus will is an issue. I do not mean to deter the switch to electric, for I think a engine that does not require an extensive cooling system, and exhaust, and much lubrication should be overall advantageous over ICEs, but I think an actual "battery breakthrough" is needed. And nuke generating power plants.
To put it simply, EVs act as big batteries on wheels. They make it possible for energy to be stored and used at a later time. In the next few years, we will have a pool of EV chargers utilised as aggregated reserves with peak power equal to a nuclear reactor.
Hypothetical but possible.
An EV battery can be used to store renewable energy during the day when production is typically high. In the evening, when consumption peaks, the energy can be discharged to relieve pressure on the market.
When everyone is using EVs then there may be little consumption decrease.
More electric vehicle charging myths
They have only really tackled one.
While the electrification of mobility is definitely accelerating, a massive power-demand crisis due to electric vehicles simply won’t happen overnight. This is an evolution that spans over decades, not a sudden revolution. This gives utility companies plenty of time to plan ahead.
Yet nuclear power plants are almost blacklisted by the Green movement and wind and solar are not going to provide what EVs will need. But nuclear energy has by far the highest capacity factor of any other energy source. This basically means nuclear power plants are producing maximum power more than 93% of the time during the year. That’s about 1.5 to 2 times more as natural gas and coal units, and 2.5 to 3.5 times more reliable than wind and solar plants.
F-150 Lightning..... I would buy the hybrid model. What is going on is that hybrid technology gets better every year. One major way is that the electric motor and transmission are one unit. Lots cheaper and more efficient.
Yes.
Good analysis of some of the left’s verbal warfare tactics.
Really the thinking I was doing doesn’t matter. No one with any sense is going to want to let their car sit and charge for 30-240 minutes when they are trying to get to\from work. People are stupid and the level of planning you just walked through is beyond most. If the powers that be can figure out how to refuel a battery to full in the same amount of time it takes to fill a gas tank, this whole thing would go a different direction.
Yes
Well, duh.
Everybody knows electricity is magic.
It comes out of those wall sockets.
Thanks for the input. My tenuous support of EVs (with nuke power plants to charge such) does not extend to this wireless computer control. A whole industry will arise seeking to both maliciously use this as well as disable this, yet even the latter can be against the law. Not good.
so... explain how plugging your electric vehicle into your house at night won’t impact the already radically overtaxed electrical grid.
these electric vehicles produce their own energy out of thin air?
hell, if i run my a/c overnight in the summer they start freaking out about brown outs.
“How do the handle the people in apartments without garages.”
Henry Ford had gas cars rolling off the assembly line before the first service station was built!
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