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Slick85
Posted 9/1/2020 22:28 (#8471101 - in reply to #8471032)
Subject: RE: Tesla and electric car questions


Indiana
frogman - 9/1/2020 21:53

I keep asking people in the electric industry and I keep getting the same answer: the grid cannot handle much more. Maybe I'm talking to the wrong people, but cities and some states struggle now with A/C load in hot weather. How is everyone going to charge their car, farm truck, semi, the 30 triaxles going back and forth each day, the 1000's of Wal-Mart trucks, etc. All I heard for years was you need to feel guilty using too much electricity because we can't generate and distribute it. Now we have so much we can make every vehicle electric and it's no problem, it just appears out of thin air. If someone has the answer, I would love to hear it. Hybrid vehicles are different and definitely have a future I think.


This is not the complete answer but what alleviates most of the issue you present has to do with peak demand. It is true that on peak the grid can be strained at times but EVs predominately charge are night after the PM peak. There is generally plenty of capacity during these times so it can potentially make better use of the generation/grid resources.

Edited by Slick85 9/1/2020 22:35
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