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Old 04-17-2022, 04:17 PM
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I saw some recent estimates of the incremental amount of electrical power needed if all cars were instantaneously replaced with EVs (I don't believe it included trucks). The amount was surprising small - about a 30% increase would be needed. This is encouraging as this is not an insurmountable amount and there is time (about 20 years) to ramp up electrical production. I say about 20 years because the transition will be slow as the average age of cars today is about 12 years and gas cars will still be produced 10 years from now. The bad news is that electrical production has been constant for the last decade at about 4T kWh.
True, but I see no point in considering what to do to support instantly converting 300 million cars to EVs - that will take decades. I am sure you know by now I am all in on EVs. but we do need infrastructure improvements to make them practical in more use cases. And, luckily, if we start now, we can have those changes ready when production is ramped up to todays levels for ICE.