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Obviously the grid can't handle 8.8 million charge points in use simultaneously. It's cars that drive demand, not charge points. If you convert all ICE car
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
Obviously the grid can't handle 8.8 million charge points in use simultaneously. It's cars that drive demand, not charge points.
If you convert all ICE cars to EV's, you'll add about 20% to electricity usage. If it takes 10 years to convert all new car sales to electric, and another 10 years before most of the old ICE vehicles stop being used, that means we have about 20 years to add 20% to the grid capacity. 1% a year is very feasible.
- thebruce87m 2y agoThe UK grid estimate a 10% increase https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/electric-vehicles-myths-misconceptions https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/ele... > The highest peak electricity demand in the UK in recent years was 62GW in 2002. Since then, the nation’s peak demand has fallen by roughly 16% due to improvements in energy efficiency. > Even if we all switched to EVs overnight, we estimate demand would only increase by around 10%. So we’d still be using less power as a nation than we did in 2002, and this is well within the range the grid can capably handle.