Hey @OVERKILL are these numbers below correct? If Wikipedia is accepted to be close, it says that the entirety of Bruce's output is ~48,000 GWh/year? And if it is assumed that every ICE car is replaced by an EV with a 100kW pack (I know, they're not all this big), the charging requirement for just the US and Canada would be ~32,000 GWh per week! In the hopes of keeping this open for discussion, namely the fact that the grid will never support this amount, and we certainly don't have enough excess capacity to come anywhere near supporting this if it is ever fully implemented, that's all I'll personally comment.
For reference, the entire US has roughly 809 total TWh of nuclear generation, equivalent to only 25 weeks worth of supply for the scenario above, and that's devoting Every. Single. Watt. to charging EVs! Thoughts?
For reference, the entire US has roughly 809 total TWh of nuclear generation, equivalent to only 25 weeks worth of supply for the scenario above, and that's devoting Every. Single. Watt. to charging EVs! Thoughts?
In Europe there is around 400 million cars. Now the EU is banning new fossil fuel cars by 2035, so imagine that all these 400 million cars would be switched out to electric. Now lets assume the cars have a battery pack of 100kw, which is what you need if you want a somewhat decent range. Imagine that all these cars get charged fully at least once a week. They would need a whopping 40 000 gigawatts of electricity – every week. I don’t think you fully understand how large that number actually is. For comparison, an average nuclear reactor produces 1 gigawatt. Here we need 40 000 gigawatts. Maybe you begin to see the problem here with electric cars. The grid will never be able to handle it. It gets even more ridiculous if we were to use wind power. A wind turbine is rated at around 0.003 gigawatts. That is the maximum it can produce, of course when there is less wind or no wind that number goes down dramatically. Again, we need 40 000 gigawatts, not 0.003. This doesn’t mean we need 40 000 nuclear reactors, as the cars won’t all be charging at the same time, but we would still need a lot of new nuclear reactors. The current grid would not be able to handle all these new electric cars. Imagine how many wind turbines we would need to be able to power all those electric cars. You would just see an army of wind turbines polluting the skyline everywhere. It’s unsustainable.
No, there is no future for a mass adoption of electric cars. What will end up happening is that you will walk or take public transport, while the elite are the only ones that can afford cars. It is all about control. They want to get rid of private car ownership. They don’t want you to have the freedom of traveling freely. They only want you to be able to travel where they decide that you can travel. Just like in the Soviet Union where the regular people couldn’t own cars, only the party elites owned cars.