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And that misses the petrol station thing. Stocking the station tanks (and that supply chain), staffing, etc, that doesn’t cost zero.
by lostlogin 3y ago
And that misses the petrol station thing. Stocking the station tanks (and that supply chain), staffing, etc, that doesn’t cost zero.
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- rcxdude 3y agoTrue, but neither does maintaining the grid
- smileysteve 3y agoMarginally and variable costs it does though. A 100% capacity charging station has few variable costs compared to gasoline delivery; the grid interconnect and charging cables are equivalent to filler and tank safety inspection, not daily or weekly deliveries of fuel by pipeline + truck.
- addicted 3y agoBut we’re already maintaining the grid. Growing it to handle the new workload would require a fraction greater maintenance workload which would be tiny in comparison to maintaining the entire parallel infrastructure needed to get oil from a Saudi Arabia desert to a car filling up at a gas station in the middle of Wichita.
- taylodl 3y agoRefining oil is a power-intensive process, requiring 5 kWH of energy per gallon of gas. This is why talks about EVs requiring so much more electrical power generation are vastly overblown - they don't account for the power consumed to pump, refine, transport, and distribute the petro products needed for ICE vehicles.