Ford posts videos of winter testing of their Electric F150.
Looks like fun. Woohoo. https://electrek.co/2020/12/22/ford-f150-electric-pickup-prototype-winter-testing-snow/Looks like fun. Woohoo.
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PS: when we talk about electricity production there is good and bad with EVs. Actual production will need to increase but production facilities (power plants) may not need to expand as much. Much can be done by charging when demand is low increasing the utilization of the power plants. For most practical purposes solar/wind are just a different type of power plant...though currently causing a lot of issues to the grid. Widespread EVs can mitigate that to a large degree because they can absorb excess demand when it's a sunny/windy day. In the long run, if those vehicles can feed back power into the grid, it could even drop the baseline power plant capability needed.
While this is true...... It is also true that the low demand generation times come with a signifignant price savigs.... Currently.
That will go away as EVs start changing those low demand times. Many things that we have come to count on not costing much electricty wise will be costing more... A lot more.
