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> It's not even much power: [...] that’s 5.461kWh/day I wouldn't call that not much power. My average (over past 10 years) entire house usage is around 15kWh/d
by jjav 4y ago
> It's not even much power: [...] that’s 5.461kWh/day
I wouldn't call that not much power. My average (over past 10 years) entire house usage is around 15kWh/day. So that's nearly 40% of the usage of the house. But if there's two drivers per household now it's about 75% incremental power usage per household. That's pretty substantial.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoDrivers are already using substantially more energy to power their (highly inefficient) ICE cars. The question here is not whether we'll use more energy, clearly EVs will use less. Similarly the question isn't whether power grids will need an upgrade, that's already in the cards as part of the EV transition. The objection raised by the OP is simply whether we can deliver 240V AC electricity to the physical streets where cars are parked, and the answer is "yes, with modest civil engineering."