I am going to assume that the vast majority of my readers do not own Electric Vehicles (EVs) for a variety of different reasons. However, then let’s assume that you can afford to buy an EV, but do not have solar panels to charge your own EV, what then will be the main problem for you and your EV?
From BlazeMedia:
Electric vehicles require charging stations. Unless Americans are to be confined to 15-minute cities, there needs to be a juiced network of such stations.
The infrastructure is not in place, however, thanks in part to the Biden administration’s bungling of its promised national rollout of EV charging stations. The Democratic administration has established fewer than a dozen of the promised 500,000 charging stations across the country.
Even if there was a satisfactory number of active stations, there is no guarantee they would be useful on account of power supply issues.
Last month, the California-based software company Xendee released the results of its survey of leaders “involved in the development, operation, and commercial use of EV charging infrastructure.”
75% of respondents said electric grid limitations were a “significant roadblock to the rollout of EV charging infrastructure for commercial EV usage.
Princeton University recently projected that the U.S. will need 3,360% more electricity on hand to satisfy the Biden administration’s EV goals, reported the Daily Mail.
“Right now, our infrastructure is likely ‘OK’ for the slow trickle of EV adoption,” Robby DeGraff, the manager of product and consumer insights at AutoPacific, told the Mail. Increased demand shaped by government mandates will, however, mean that “the grid will certainly need to be revamped.
Many of Xendee’s clients have apparently opted to install fossil-fuel-powered generators to power their charging stations. So in effect, there’s a good chance that EV drivers
who manage to find charging stations, will find those that are powered by the same energy source the EV is supposed to have made redundant — if not by a generator on-site, then by a predominantly gas-powered grid.
Circular reasoning at its worst!
Hmmm!
7/9/24
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