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Why did you ask how high their electric bill is going to be? Didn't you realize that it is a very silly question? If need be they only need another outlet or two at the most added. That is not expensive. If you thought this out at all you would not need to ask such questions.
And even if we did not build for the greater load that electric cars will put on the grid, we already need to update the national power grid. It is beginning to fail again and again due to overuse as it is. Sometimes catastrophically. If we are going to rebuild it, it does not cost that much more to add on a bit of extra carrying capacity for cars. At the worst let's say that we find a better technology than electric and here was have a power system that carries more than we need. That would only allow for the expansion due to population growth that is going to come some day. There is no down side to refurbishing the system correctly.
I would like to see how building materials affect AGW. I know of the urban heat island effect. I knew about that before AGW was ever in the news. I used to own a motorcycle and you could feel the temperature go up as you left the country and drove into the city.
How far are people driving in a day? Over 300 miles, the range of most EV's today? I don't see that as an unsolvable problem. As long as drivers top up the battery every night there shouldn;t be a problem for the average person doing errands.
The global community should have started research decades ago, and not let the fossil fuel lobby influence politicians to the degree it has.But also the huge amount of batteries needed, one can wonder how eco-friendly they really are and how these exact numbers are calculated. But there seem to be different views on this as expected.
Come on, that's why cars and planes and boats and bicycles were all banned as soon as people died from using them.
What got me was the question about electricity rates. He did not even give one second to thinking about how much gasoline costs. Recently there was some talk that charging stations were almost on par with gas stations when it came to costs, With the nod still going to charging stations. You can do it at home. And it is cheaper. By a factor of three or more. That means, given the rough equivalence of gasoline costs for energy and electric at charging stations that means if one switches to electric and their electricity rates go up by $50.00 that means that their gas expenditures would have dropped $150.00 for a net gain of $100 a month. A bigger electrical bill would mean that they were saving money. A lot of money.
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Good point. We had a place near Lake Superior for 28 years, and when I went to a car dealership there and inquired about a hybrid, I was advised it would be a waste of money because at below 0 F. temps, the batteries don't hold a charge well. Heck, when compared to us Yoopers, Denmark is more like a sauna!
Same here because the alternative is far worse.
Good point. We had a place near Lake Superior for 28 years, and when I went to a car dealership there and inquired about a hybrid, I was advised it would be a waste of money because at below 0 F. temps, the batteries don't hold a charge well. Heck, when compared to us Yoopers, Denmark is more like a sauna!
Batteries will be a huge issue. Materials like lithium and cobalt are becoming strategic and geopolitical, and so is the extraction and processing capacity. The Chinese, naturally, are on the case, Chile is waking up to it, Australia, which sits on huge Li deposits, does not seem to have………etc.The problem is fitting in all those charging stations and the time needed to charge the car has to go down by a great deal.
The Tesla Supercharger is the fastest charging option when you're away from home, allowing you to charge your car up to 200 miles in 15 minutes.
Whether that is true or not I don't know as there seem to be a lot of different numbers when you search on it. But still, imagine a motorway where each car has to spend 15 minutes charging, they have to be huge or there need to be a lot of them or they need to charge them in towers like parking buildings or something.
But also the huge amount of batteries needed, one can wonder how eco-friendly they really are and how these exact numbers are calculated. But there seem to be different views on this as expected.
No one asks questions that get in the way of feeling virtuous.But also the huge amount of batteries needed, one can wonder how eco-friendly they really are and how these exact numbers are calculated. But there seem to be different views on this as expected.