I'm all for electric cars, except those aspects of them that are controlled by entities other than the driver. As has been demonstrated more than once, even gasoline powered cars of recent manufacture are connected to the internet and can be disabled or modified remotely. I have disconnected all that stuff on my cars.
We just don't have enough generating capacity or enough copper wire to have a 100% electric fleet. For example, the average current draw of the average American house is about 1.3 kW. The overnight full charge draw of a Tesla Model 3 is 7kW. When you consider that here in California, there have been major blackouts and brown-outs during hot recent hot weather, a sudden mandated change is not even close to being practical. No doubt these problems can be solved, but unrealistic mandates will be yet another economy destroyer. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, January 3rd, 2022 at 3:40 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Electric cars will not be a burden on the power grid if most of them are > charged overnight. They will cause the power grid to consume more natural > gas, but overall much less energy and CO2 emissions than gasoline would. They > would be a problem if they were charged during the day. With modern power > meters, electric power rates can be set to avoid this. > >>
