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And if they do look out for an overloaded grid and power generating shortage.
If you drive 15k miles /year and get 20 MPG you use 750 gallons of fuel. Converted to BTUs and figuring 20% thermal efficiency of a gasoline engine you use 5273 KW of power. That power is coming from somewhere. It's about 4 months of a $200 electric bill per month at 15 cents a KW. That is a heap of power basically requiring a one third increase in US power generation.
Everything has a cost. Nothing comes free. Batteries don't make power.
If you drive 15k miles /year and get 20 MPG you use 750 gallons of fuel. Converted to BTUs and figuring 20% thermal efficiency of a gasoline engine you use 5273 KW of power. That power is coming from somewhere. It's about 4 months of a $200 electric bill per month at 15 cents a KW. That is a heap of power basically requiring a one third increase in US power generation.
Everything has a cost. Nothing comes free. Batteries don't make power.
