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With electricity What a silly comment. The switch over to an electric cars is a multi year process that will take at least until 2030 just for new cars. The cu
by rat87 4y ago
With electricity
What a silly comment. The switch over to an electric cars is a multi year process that will take at least until 2030 just for new cars. The current problems won't last nearlt that long
- pjmlp 4y agoSomeone forgot the laws of physics regarding electricy production for the amount of cars in transit.
- lostlogin 4y agoPetrol prices rising are part of this crisis too. Most EVs are charged over night, when grid usage is low. Doesn’t that maximise the use of a strained system?
- pjmlp 4y agoMost countries need their electrical heaters and cooking stoves as well during the night.
- panick21_ 4y agoYes but lights are turned off, factories are turned off, trains aren't running and many other things as well. And most people don't cook during the night.
- pjmlp 4y agoStill not enought to power all cars during the night, given the charging time. Anyway that isn't an issue, because only a few elected ones can charge their Teslas on their private parkings.
- panick21_ 4y agoThe cars don't need all night to charge, and most people don't need a full charge every day. Unless you claim that with EV people will drive radically more, you will see the same thing where most people don't use their cars that often and thus they don't need to charge that much. And lots of people with a car don't actually park on the street. Its usually an outside parking spot or a parking garage. Both can add electricity rather easily. And simply remaining on ICE is just about 100x dumber. I prefer walking, biking and trains to, but cars will not go away, and transitioning those to EV. I have seen study that suggest its not as big an issue as you make it out to be. Please show me the study that has realistic assumptions that claims it will be a huge problem.
- thrown_22 4y agoRight, so we just need to burn natural gas to meet that new demand. We can get that from ... oh.
- lostlogin 4y agoFor peak load, yes, but base load has a lot of nuclear.
- dilyevsky 4y agoWhat the efficiency of electric motor vs ice since you seem to be physics buf?
- pjmlp 4y agoWe are discussing the efficiency of the electric power grid to charge all existing vehicles from 2022, assuming they would be all electric as of tomorrow.
- dilyevsky 4y agoSure but they won’t be tomorrow, not in 10 years. Even so burning crude at a power plant and powering electric motor should be more efficient per mile travelled than ice