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Eliminating the majority of generation does not enable the electric vehicle market.

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• toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Eliminating coal generation overnight would be...impractical, but if it drove up electrical costs, that would send market signals to bring more renewables, utility battery storage, and natural gas generation online. NREL did some research about 5 years ago showing you could move ~75% of the US light vehicle fleet over to electric with no additional generation capacity, so the generation slack is there.
  • slimed 7y ago
    At peak hours? I somehow doubt that without massive and expensive amounts of new battery infrastructure we wouldn't see blackouts in major cities. Can anyone shed light on this?
    • toomuchtodo 7y ago
      Overnight charging. EVs are a great fit for when demand is low at night (and you’ve got to run the generator regardless), or when there’s excessive production from renewables and you don’t want to curtail and waste that power.
  • pojzon 7y ago
    We should just introduce a tax for pollutioners. Big enough to make going green an economical adventage. Problem is all of the world politicians are a corrupt scum. And this is the only reason we didnt do that already. We have means to stop polluting. We just choose not to stop.