TenOC wrote:
The electrical grid can only (with great difficulty) support all the electrical demand now (but not on a very hot or very cold day). eAutos will require almost 3000 NEW COAL FIRED electrical generating plants plus upgrade of all the substations etc. NO WAY.
not sure where 3000 new coal plants number came from but I suspect (a) someone slipped a digit or mare likely 2 and (b) NG, solar or wind with battery or dam reservoirs, wind, etc. is more than capable of negating the need for most any coal plant.
bury your head in the sand if you want, but it's going to happen, will it be by 2035? I'll say no, but we will be at a point of the majority if not vast majority of at least passenger and LT vehicles being all electric and IMHO virtually NO vehicle that is not at least a hybrid if not plug in hybrid.
We already have a fleet of city buses that are all electric, doing well and much nicer to be behind than the older diesel buses.
