My question is what is it going to do toe electricity rates. I might not own an EV but will I be paying more for heating, air conditioning, and just living because electricity rates will be going up?
Yes, welcome to socialism being all about control and redistribution. There is also a myriad of other secondary problems - for example these battery fires everywhere that burn down everything from a garage to an international cargo ship. Lots of people will die if it really gets going, plus other things like DIY’s overloading circuits, theft of vehicles (like catalytic converters have become) and third world poisoning of people to say the least. And oh the climate nonsense is a scam so the leftists will be even more evil in a short time, and that is just the beginning. Think about the wars between the windmill greenies (subsidies) and the pro-EV folks coming to a town near you, it’s going to be quite a riot.
“My question is what is it going to do toe electricity rates. I might not own an EV but will I be paying more for heating, air conditioning, and just living because electricity rates will be going up?”
My wife and I are senior citizens in California and use PG&E as our electricity provider.
Until this year they had a great plan for senior citizens:
It was simple and easy to use. We planned our daily big use to be done by noon when our rates went up. Then, after 6pm, we could use our oven and other heavy duty electricity using appliances. We did big projects over the lower cost weekends.
That stopped on 1 Jan this year with basically no economical time of use being the best.
Our PG&E bills are about 40% more than last year.
An engineer/younger relative says the higher rates are there due to the high demand at night for EVs being recharged for the next day.