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Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
« on: January 31, 2021, 03:30:20 pm »
Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
 
GM’s decision this week to phase out gasoline vehicles is the latest in a major shift that will mean dramatic new demands on electric utilities. Here are four things that will need to happen.

Major automakers are increasingly betting that millions of new cars and trucks over the next decade will be plugged into electrical outlets, not fueled up at gas stations. That raises a question: Is the nation’s power grid ready to handle this surge of new electric vehicles?

Today, fewer than 1 percent of cars on America’s roads are electric. But a seismic shift is underway.

https://distincttoday.net/2021/01/29/electric-cars-are-coming-and-fast-is-the-nations-grid-up-to-it/
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Re: Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2021, 04:06:21 pm »
Yep, they'll be all over the road...

...wishing there was some place to charge up.

Wishing they had enough battery to run the heater.

(or keep a light on so the snowplow doesn't hit them).
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Re: Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2021, 04:11:08 pm »
Where is the energy going to come from, that is necessary to extract and transport the chemicals needed to make the batteries?
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Re: Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2021, 04:41:01 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on January 31, 2021, 04:11:08 pm
Where is the energy going to come from, that is necessary to extract and transport the chemicals needed to make the batteries?

Liberal Logic at its best.....

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Re: Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2021, 05:02:55 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on January 31, 2021, 04:11:08 pm
Where is the energy going to come from, that is necessary to extract and transport the chemicals needed to make the batteries?

From here, silly.

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Re: Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2021, 05:53:20 pm »
Oil and gas runs the real world.
Green energy runs liberal fantasyland.
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2021, 05:54:33 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 31, 2021, 05:53:20 pm
Oil and gas runs the real world.
Green energy runs liberal fantasyland.

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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2021, 10:52:27 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on January 31, 2021, 05:02:55 pm
From here, silly.


All I could think of was that those outlets looked like a pair of faces in sad disbelief...
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