rgpc64
rgpc64 t1_ixv4b53 wrote
Reply to comment by ConcernedDudeMaybe in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
How simpleminded do you think people are?
You are either being disengenuous or haven't done your reasearch.
Renewable energy sources accounted for about 19.8% of total utility-scale electricity generation and more renewable generation is the leading sector in regards to new sources.
Even with the current grid EV's have been cradle to grave cleaner than ICE vehicles since at least 2015 and they're getting cleaner.
https://thecharge.ca/news/ford-u-of-michigan-study-finds-evs-cleaner-from-cradle-to-grave/
An electric motor is so much more efficient than a gas motor that even electricity made with natural gas allows electric cars to be more effucient than ICE vehicles.
Electric motors makes vehicles A LOT more efficient than internal combustion engines. Electric motors convert over 85 percent of electrical energy into mechanical energy, or motion, compared to less than 40%for a gas combustion engine. The drivetrain in an EV is far more efficient as in less friction. According to the DOE an EV is about 59-62 percent of the electrical energy from the grid goes to turning the wheels, whereas gas combustion vehicles only convert about 17-21 percent of energy from burning fuel into moving the car. This means that an electric vehicle is about three times as efficient as an ICE vehicle. And that doesn't include regenerative braking.
Understanding is a far better methodology than repeating someone elses decades old fossil fuel industry propaganda.
rgpc64 t1_ixuxb4a wrote
Reply to comment by ConcernedDudeMaybe in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
No doubt improvement is needed but cradle to grave electric infrastructure and transportation is already far cleaner than fossil fuel based systems with the potential to be far cleaner.
Using less, local sourcing, re-use etc. unfortunately isn't discussed a lot since there is less business involved.
rgpc64 t1_ixur8x4 wrote
Reply to comment by ConcernedDudeMaybe in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
And fossil fuels, and platinum, palldium rodium etc. Used in ice cars. Conductive metals are recycleable. Copper and aluminum are plentiful.
rgpc64 t1_ixsvnzj wrote
Reply to comment by pzerr in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
Correct, we do not have it yet but we didn't have the infrastructure for ICE vehicles in 1905 either.
Billions of dollars are currently in the pipeline to do this work. The number of jobs this will create will help our country embrace the future rather than remain dependant on older, oilier and dirtier technology.
rgpc64 t1_ixs3ey4 wrote
Reply to comment by VoraciousTrees in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
"The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that first-round applications are open for competitive grants under the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership Programs, which total $10.5 billion in available funding, as well as the $2.5 billion Transmission Facilitation Program. Funded by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these programs together represent the largest single direct federal investment in critical transmission and distribution infrastructure."
rgpc64 t1_ixs2j6f wrote
Reply to comment by pzerr in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
A single station currently holds that much energy in the form of Diesel fuel.
rgpc64 t1_ixs291e wrote
Reply to Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
No kidding and gas stations weren't widespread when the model T went into production.
rgpc64 t1_ix0k148 wrote
Reply to FIFA chief Gianni Infantino hits out at Qatar criticism saying European countries should instead 'be apologising for the next 3,000 years' by Garchomp98
Infantino is Qatar's butt kissing ball boy or is that ball kissing butt boy?
rgpc64 t1_ixv7pf9 wrote
Reply to comment by ConcernedDudeMaybe in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
I have, some good points but very flawed information as well.
We live with a smaller footprint than most and practice what we preach.
I read the population bomb when I was twelve, ride a bike more than I drive, started one of the first curbside recycling programs in my State and the first in my County in the 1980's. I also helped build a number of Community Gardens including one on the land trust I was on the board of for 25 years that helped negotiate funding and purchases of several open space properties.
None of that changes the fact that an electric infrastructure even with it's myriad of challenges is a far better plan for the future than one based on fossil fuels. Hopefully people will live less wastefull, less energy intensive lives but even if they do we will still need electricity.