Intertie grid failures are not "A Thing Of The Past". Total tWh to power several millions of vehicles needs a grid and sub sets beyond the comprehension of 99% of the people in this country. Three or four UHV DC transmission lines full length of California. Where's the energy going to come from, nuclear? That more translations energy goes through the more % is lost.
75 kWh to travel 275 miles is being carnival barker deceptive at its best. That is predicated @ travel UNLOADED over FLAT terrain. On a good day I will travel 500 miles. Gassing up means 15 minutes off the freeway. Not an added three hours waiting at a charging station.
Anyone ever do a workup on the energy needed to produce a Tesla and power it say, 200,000 miles? The critter is a rolling resources raper. The only viable clean energy source for creating hundreds and hundreds of tWh grids is natural gas. Would a person believe tens of millions of transmission towers and BILLIONS of feet of aluminum for conductor are going to "appear" by magic? Do any of you have the faintest idea of the amount of ELECTRICAL energy it takes to manufacture aluminum from bauxite? KISS GOODBYE your neighborhood power distribution network. It's going to need a 1000% capacity upgrade. Underground? Do your homework and see the incredible cost of underground distribution. The ONLY way this is going to be feasible is with thousand volt DC NEIGHBORHOOD system and individual inverters as per application.
I won't be around to see the insane industrialization needed for hundreds of millions of electrical vehicles. Huge asteroid impact sized open pit mines needed to extract rare earth for components, and near armaggedon when titanic electrical fields are created. Well, at least lithium pollution side-effects will moderate the manic depressive inclined.
But I will be curious to my last breath at the multiplication by magnitudes of energy needed to pull this off. Houdini advertising he can escape from a three inch thick steel steel box. At least it force the substitution for another gag for the "The magic of this gasoline saving miracle will force you to hang a bucket under your gas filler pipe"
When the reality sets in, it will initiate The Grand Crisis For Mass Transit Relief.
I will be feeding a tree.
