The verdict is already in. Tesla went from 50% growth three years ago to negative growth in the United States for 2024.So? More apartment renters have access to swimming pools and tennis courts than homeowners. Apartments didn't used to have air conditioning, kitchens, washer and dryers (or connections), cable tv, broadband internet, etc. They got that through market forces and moving trucks. Craigslist now has a hard button option on search for "EV Charging".
Little do you know. A Tesla Wall Connector will manage 4 or 5 on the same circuit. One at a time if need be.
Texas is only out of power due to their horrible "managed free enterprise" distribution, misguided push for wind power, and the banning of purchasing power from out of state.
So even though you’re highlighting the possibilities for electric is certainly not even close to “being there” or even the public wanting them for all things in transportation.
I could care less if Texas is out of power, but your statement acknowledges a power issue in this country.
It’s just not Texas. There is major critical thinking taking place in Washington right now how to beef up the power grid so we could support technology companies before China overtakes us.
China is planning 75 nuclear power plants. The United States has trouble building two new ones because for decades now America’s have been irrationally scared nuclear power.
So even Washington is acknowledging we have a power problem and it’s far worse than electric vehicles.
We don’t have enough power for massive server farms that are needed for artificial intelligence before China overtakes us as a world power.
At the same time we’re supposed to have power to charge 300 million vehicles on the road when right now we don’t even charge 3 million vehicles on the road. The other 297 million run on gasoline and a small percentage diesel.
Since you brought up Texas, let’s bring up California, two years ago they were asking people to charge their cars off peak.
On Long Island, New York a couple decades back they spent $5 billion building a nuclear power plant and over $1 billion dismantling it because the public opposition.
In South Carolina that had two brand new nuclear plants being constructed and they after billions spent. It’s still just a hole on the ground because of mismanagement by Westinghouse Toshiba. Now the project completely dead.
My power company in the Carolinas ask us to turn down our thermostat for certain hours during the winter and turn it up certain hours during the summer as most of the country.
Even if we have the power, we then need all new distribution system to distribute it. At least with artificial intelligence, we could put server farms near the actual power plants, but we can’t move communities near the power plants to charge the cars.
I do think at some point some type of alternative to gasoline will come along that is feasible for everybody, but I think we’re about 100 years away from that.
By the way, China is a direct threat to us and we have nothing to combat them with as this artificial intelligence takes off without enough power to power the server farms.
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