Cybertruck has 400 horses

Reisender wrote:

noteven wrote:
If 50% of vehicles become BEV what amount of electricity would need to be generated daily to replace 50% of the diesel fuel, gasohol, and other combustion fuels?

BC hydro has a section on their website that talks about this. Their estimates are that if 100 percent of personal vehicles in B.C. were to change to Electtic overnight the extra strain on the grid would be an additional 19 percent. Seems to me that was based on an average of 8 KW per day per vehicle which in turn was based on average mileage per year travelled. At 6 km per KW that’s around 50 km per day. Our lifetime average over the last 5 years of travelling with an EV is around 6.4 km per KW so sounds about right. We currently have 30 percent over capacity and when the new Site C dam is finished it will be close to 50 percent. As well, modernization and efficiency improvements are actually causing total load to begin to diminish.

Their preparation focus now is neighbourhood transformers so everyone charging at once at night doesn’t overload local transformers. Kinda like Christmas afternoon with everybody putting their turkey in the oven at the same time. We set our charge timers to charge between 1 and 5 in the morning just to help out in that regard.

Buyers of Tesla vehicles are incentivize for cross-sale of solar roofs. They are the natural constituents for this features in their homes having their eyes opened to the wonders of cheap of with solar panels, free and abundant energy from the sun.

In CA, it's standard to have solar panels for new homes. And once they experience of near zero electricity bill, it's not remote for them to be attracted to EVs.

That's a self-sustaining loop.