Ive also seen videos that show hundreds of acres of these EV cars sitting there, in China, rotting away in parking lots, unused, the sales were just for show, kind of like a govt propaganda thing. Look how many of these we sell each year!!! we are better than you neener neener.
Scooters, you really can't count too much, because those you can plug into your wall w/o any modifications and charge them on standard current, and they don't take a lot either, the infra structure is pretty much there to charge and handle them. The trucks and cars now that need beefier power put to them are going to be the big issues EVERYWHERE.
Picture your quaint little subdivision that was built in the 70's. It was so carefully designed and signed off on, by EVERYONE, including the power company who said, ok you are going to need 10 megawatts to power all those houses and their stuff, so they tap a 20k line to send that much down your quaint little block after it runs thru all your cute little pole transformers to finally drop it to a level that you can use. Now all of the sudden, ooh wow they are going to peak at 40 meg now instead of 10. Hmm. What to do?
Up the voltage, can't then we'd have to change out all the transformers, AND the insulators on the poles to handle the higher voltage, MAJOR undertaking.
Add more transformers on the existing, well yah but the feed lines are 100 amps max, we can't run 200 amps thru it,stuff melts. need to run all new lines, which means additional insulators, oh and it all has to be up to CURRENT codes, not the code back in the 1970's. So since you are doing that much, why not at that point just redo the entire thing? Ok, tell them they will be without electricity for a few weeks to a month while we redo their hood.
Well tell them they can only charge from 12 pm to 5 pm because that's when the usage is the lowest.. well that's dandy for the Jerry Springer crowd.. the rest who actually have to work for a living, are working, and not at their chargers. so that won't work.
Oh and your electrical load on a cold night is 3050 Megawatts, you can do that WITH every generator you own, running at peak, with ZERO derating, and every transformer behaving, with zero derating, no ringing, no overloads. But oh boy now we need an extra 500 megawatts to charge all the cars too. We don't have it, we are super peaked right now and there is ZERO extra power floating around because everyone else around us, is cold too, and peaking all their stuff as well, trying to keep their lights on too. Well turn off the chargers then, we don't have the power for them. Or start rolling blackouts.
The first time someone gets stranded because they were not able to charge, they re going to trade their e vehicle back in for an ice vehicle, because, well, it's reliable, and you can carry a can of gas along with you, you can't carry a can of electricity with you.
Ironically, the more the E vehicles come mainstream, the worse their problems are going to grow, until EVERYTHING is adapted out for them. Telling everyone you WILL be in an E vehicle by xx date is not going to work when the support for them is simply not there.
Solar and batteries on your house may help a LOT, in some instances but that is going to cost as much as your car did. how many people can REALLY afford that? and everything else.
Scams or not, you are going to be seeing a lot of boondoggles coming up in the next few years, as these problems pop up and they can't hide / ignore them anymore.
Aaron
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