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No, Electric Vehicles won’t impact the grid or overload it, debunking anti -electric vehicle myths.
https://www.virta.global/blog/myth-buster-electric-vehicles-will-overload-the-power-grid ^

Posted on 03/09/2022 4:59:00 AM PST by Morpheus2009

Will a mass transition to electric vehicles (EVs) cause the electric power grid to collapse? Some argue that EVs will make the grid unstable, which could mean hefty investments to upgrade existing infrastructures in order to withstand the electricity uptake

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghoax
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To: Morpheus2009

Very few people are interested in a 60 grand electric vehicle ....and the poor certainly wouldn’t.

This is just Boiden pushing his green agenda.


61 posted on 03/09/2022 5:36:40 AM PST by caww ( )
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To: Travis McGee

They WILL stop your car in its tracks for any reason whatsoever. They will start with stolen cars. Everyone will be OK with stopping a stolen car! But the reasons will expand. Before long your car will be immobilized if you press “like” on a pro-Trump posting.


62 posted on 03/09/2022 5:36:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: PIF

Not to worry, the government will provide you with an electric vehicle and the charging station.


63 posted on 03/09/2022 5:36:54 AM PST by Baldwin77 (If you put anything into my body WITHOUT my consent, IT IS RAPE.)
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To: Morpheus2009

Electric cars are perfect for those in a position to afford them. However, electricity is not free and imagine some homes where lights and TV is out because the car is charging. Imagine repair costs when the batteries need replaced. What happens to the used car market where dealers sell a car with almost depleted batteries. What happens during hurricanes and other storms when the power goes out? There is just so much to be resolved.

I would love to have a Tesla, it’s a beautiful car but half the time I forget to charge my phone.....


64 posted on 03/09/2022 5:37:56 AM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: Morpheus2009

“We value making things happen in practice. We are not a company that only talks about disruptions, but we make them happen with visible business results.”

https://www.virta.global/company


65 posted on 03/09/2022 5:38:42 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Morpheus2009

Right now we’re in the mode of ending production of fossil fuel cars and converting the grid to solar/wind. When that is accomplished, THEN they will move to control the grid, meaning people will ONLY get to charge their electric cars when there is sufficient solar/wind.

So people who intend to charge their cars at home would be best to plug them in every night, in the hope that enough margin becomes available on the grid to allow them to charge (again, it will depend o the weather).

For road trips, if you’re trying to charge off-hours, they pretty much have to let you do charge the car when you need to, but they’ll charge you through the teeth for that convenience if it’s when power is tight.


66 posted on 03/09/2022 5:39:20 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Beagle8U

We used to have a Prius. I always thought that’s the direction to go. Start trying to make those cheaper and better, and figure out how to adapt them to bigger cars/trucks. I know they have hybrid SUVs, but they don’t get good gas mileage like the Prius.

Wish we had our old Prius right now.

Totally electric does not work for so many cases.

We have an RV and like to go boondock. I get the impression that democrats don’t like that lifestyle.


67 posted on 03/09/2022 5:39:42 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: Morpheus2009

The combustion engine is one of the greatest inventions of man which is why Communists hate it.


68 posted on 03/09/2022 5:39:45 AM PST by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Morpheus2009

-— “No, Electric Vehicles won’t impact the grid or overload it, debunking anti -electric vehicle myths.”

Famous last words....
Any mechanical engineer with an understanding of the Law of Conservation of Energy/1st Law of Thermodynamics is laughing their arses off at these idiot morons.
Oh....wait. Those “laws” were written by nasty, old, racist, white men a long time ago and based on racist mathematics so they must be false. Yeah, so was Newton’s Law of Gravity. Libs need to go to the roof of the tallest buildings in their area, and all jump off together at the very same time to prove him wrong.


69 posted on 03/09/2022 5:41:01 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: keats5

Indeed, watching the murders on subway camera footage in NYC and Kansas City was disheartening.


70 posted on 03/09/2022 5:41:37 AM PST by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!s)
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To: Morpheus2009

Manufacturing and destroying batteries are two of the most toxic processes extant.
Making and then, ultimately, disposing of batteries will destroy the environment.
Plus the simple fact that batteries have to get the electricity they store from somewhere that creates electricity: coal, hydro, gas, nuclear, etc.
All batteries do for the environment is add a very expensive middle-man, storage device into the electrical delivery system.
If you truly care about the environment, you’ll stay far, far, FAR away from batteries.


71 posted on 03/09/2022 5:45:43 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: luckystarmom

People just plug in anywhere they can and then get upset when the outlets owner unplugs them.


72 posted on 03/09/2022 5:46:02 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: Morpheus2009

I hate EVs but it sure seems to me that manufacturing a 100% EV (no hybrids!) is cheaper than an ICE automobile. Electric motors are cheaper and lower maintenance than an equivalent ICE. Let’s say that Toyota currently produces one million ICE Corollas per year via its ultra efficient manufacturing technology. (Honda and VW are in the same league)

Toyota mass production of one million Corolla EVs will result in a less expensive automobile than manufacturing one million Corolla ICE version. By $3,000 is my guess. Corolla EV will cost the consumer $3000 less. When figuring the battery costs $1000.


73 posted on 03/09/2022 5:46:13 AM PST by dennisw
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To: luckystarmom

Hybrid always appealed to me because it was multiple systems, both electric and gas, best of both worlds.


74 posted on 03/09/2022 5:46:36 AM PST by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!s)
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To: Morpheus2009

I worked for an engineering consultancy that studied this very specific aspect of EV migration.

The conclusion was; yes, if everyone had an EV and began charging concurrently the grid would have massive problems. The neighborhood transformers would melt down. We’ll need a complete overhaul of the grid.


75 posted on 03/09/2022 5:48:54 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: PIF

Also factor in battery recycling costs and battery replacement costs.


76 posted on 03/09/2022 5:49:16 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: lgjhn23

Protonmail.com


77 posted on 03/09/2022 5:49:27 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Travis McGee

We saw this when Penski remotely shut down the truck that is leased by a truck driver from Texas who was participating in the Peoples Convoy just this past week.


78 posted on 03/09/2022 5:49:29 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: CodeToad; Joe Brower
Please add to my list of products, services and devices that can be remotely shut down by the state.

I saw a word meme called "Klaus's Law" but it was written awkwardly, had no photo for context, and I just think "Klaus's Law" sounds like some kind of German salad. It doesn't flow. I think Schwab's Law reads and sounds better.

Anyway, please shoot me your ideas to add to the list on the right.

Thanks.


79 posted on 03/09/2022 5:49:42 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

“In 2040 you will drive a tiny EV that you do not own and you’ll be happy about it” -— Uncle Klaus


80 posted on 03/09/2022 5:49:50 AM PST by dennisw
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