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Don’t we need to like more than double our current level of power production (+capacity of the power network) to be able to ditch ice cars? I wonder how more th
by badpun 7y ago
Don’t we need to like more than double our current level of power production (+capacity of the power network) to be able to ditch ice cars? I wonder how more than doubling of the number of power plants is supposed to get funded. Is there some proposal that is grounded in technical and economical realities?
- Reason077 7y agoNo. In the UK it's around a 30% increase on current electricity demand by 2050 for a near-100% EV vehicle fleet. But as a significant portion of EV charging can be done off-peak/overnight, in terms of new generation capacity it's even less. This is something that has been studied in some depth by the UK's national grid: https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dreams-future-evs https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dre... https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-predicted-no-sweat-says-national-grid/ https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-pr...
- vetinari 7y agoWe also need to significantly upgrade transmission and distribution. That might be even more capital intensive, than building new production capacity.