Tesla Launch of Pick-Up
Elon Musk, mentioned that Tesla is ready to launch a "kick-ass" pick up next year. My son works at Tesla and this is just a confirmation of what he told me in secret a few months ago that their lab...
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ShinerBock wrote:ksss wrote:
The electric grid will need to be "supercharged" as well if all of this actually sees the light of day. There isn't enough solar panels or windmills to make it "clean". So it leaves Nuke, coal and natural gas fired plants to pickup the slack. I find that a little ironic.
Having enough power is only part of the problem, getting it to the customer is another. Power lines only have so much current carrying capacity. Too much current and it will overheat damaging the line. While we may have enough power(dirty or clean) to charge EV's, many places will have to upgrade the power lines in their grid in order to meet demand. Especially in industrial zones where there can be multiple fleets of trucks in a small area charging at ones time.
I would say you have that backwards. Plenty of line capacity in industrialized city areas.
It's the remote backwoods towns that are running on a single strand that would need upgrading.
