CheeseheadEarl
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Someone please tell me where all this excess electric capacity will come from, and at what cost? Our grid system is stretched already in many places..
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At the moment 40k KWH are lost from the Phoenix area grid due to low nightly use. (straight from the mouth of an inside man) Once that is consumed, the magic of capitalism begins. Believe me, the utilities would love to have the money from EV charging to improve the grid. At the moment most traditional power companies have a nightly wasted capacity. There may eventually be a requirement for fast-charge vehicles to charge their last 50% on some sort of schedule. That's easy to force adoption into the public via having a lower pricing off hour.Someone please tell me where all this excess electric capacity will come from, and at what cost? Our grid system is stretched already in many places..
outside of the costs. It's just not feasible for most Americans. With Some exceptions, we have sprawling metro areas. In my situation, living on the east tide of Dallas, it would take almost a full charge to get me from my house to say a Rangers or Cowboys game on the other side of Dallas (Arlington) with not much wiggle room to do any driving around. Then several hours to charge. I like the concept, but technology just isn't there yet. It's not so much the range, I don't mind stopping more frequently to "Charge/fill-up" but the time it takes to charge is a deal breaker.