“Do you ever take long trips by car? Do you ever drive in extremely cold weather? Do you live in a possible hurricane evacuation zone? Do you think that your power company has the capacity to have even 20% of the houses running at full demand? Just curious.”
I guess you missed the part where that model 3 would be strictly a commuter car that sees 106 miles 5/6 days a week across the heart of the DFW metroplex. I have two other cars already one with a 500+ mile range per tank so long trips would be as they already are in the S60 what would change is not putting 28,000 miles per year on a $50,000+ automobile vs a 33K EV the capex cost from zero are already lower per mile every mile from mile zero. Dallas doesn’t really get hurricanes and if we did our house is 30 feet above the 1000 year floodplain with a nice warm garage from it to sit in. So my experience with rental tesla did cover below 30 degrees which is a once or twice a year for a week or two in DFW coming out of my warm garage there was only a 5% loss of range. Given that it has 325 miles and it’s only 56 one way to work and a charger even 50% range loss would be irrelevant. My power company has never complained about people rocking their AC full bore which a 40amp draw would be less than half the load of the typical dual zone double 50 breaker amp systems around here. We are deregulated so we choose out energy provider individually on a house by house basis. Level 2 AC charging is not supercharging 40a@240v is only 9.6kw equal to a cloths drying machine running hardly grid crashing. Given that I only need 106 miles round trip even if I don’t charge at work which I would every day. A model 3 goes 4 miles or more for every kWh gross from the plug I have seen as much as 6 miles per gross kWh in bumper to bumper traffic. 26.5kWh is enough to cover that 106 mile commute. That’s 2.7 hours at a 40amp L2 rate. The wife routinely runs a whole days worth of laundry with the dryer running for 6+ hours a day or more. It’s moot for me I’ll plug it in at work when I get there in the mornings before lunch it will be full again and I’ll come home with more than enough charge to turn around and go all the way back the next day. I’ll never charge at home so it’s all academic.
Thanks for confirming my point about EVs being a niche product. You must have one of the lucky ones regarding range. An article in of all things the ultra liberal NY Times said
“ Consumer Reports reported last week that Tesla’s Model Y comes up short of claimed range in all types of weather. While its official EPA range is 326 miles per charge, the best range researchers were able to achieve was 274 miles in warm weather, while in cold weather, the vehicle could only travel 186 miles.”
And Texas doesn’t usually get as cold as Chicago which hit the news recently about dead Teslas due to cold weather.
As for demand, simultaneously running air conditioning and charging is what I had in mind about the inability of the grid to support widespread EV ownership. And as far as free charging. Just ain’t so. Someone is paying for that electricity. Ultimately it’s the stockholders of your employer. Presumably you live in a single family dwelling and can charge overnight; however, the 30% of the US population does not and has no option to even install any sort charger which complicates the Democrats’ hair brained scheme to force everyone into EVs.
I said before and will reiterate: “let the market decide. “ eliminate all subsidies and the ridiculous carbon credit scam. CO2 is an essential component of plant life and without plants we really will all die.