Is it the "price of gas, stupid"?

Mercor said:
Do we have the grid to produce electricity for everyone to have an electric car
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Short Answer: No. Plus think of the pollution -- most of our power plants in North Carolina burn coal.

The reality is that it would be best for the electric grid to evolve to a micro-grid infrastructure including lots of residential/commercial solar plus utility owned small gas plants to support expansion of electric use plus many electric vehicles.
 
Mercor said:
Do we have the grid to produce electricity for everyone to have an electric car
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No... not even close. We can barely supply adequate power in some areas. Not a dime is being spent on electric infrastructure.

What will happen with electric cars is some kind of tiered scheme with much higher prices per kWh for car charging. Then they will restrict the hours you can charge. Ultimately they will tell you how many miles per month you can drive.

I'm an electrical engineer and not fundamentally opposed to electric transportation but I can see that the grid cannot sustain the movement of our entire transportation infrastructure to electric.

Nobody discusses the end game with electric cars like the fact that many cars have such integrated batteries that the car is totaled at the end of its battery life. And where do those old toxic batteries end up?
 
Joe's clearly been smoking some of Hunter's crack. Lots of words which make absolutely no sense. You can't speechwrite your way into reality, bitch.

 
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