tailgater wrote:13 years.
Apartments will have 240V wall plugs. (although I've always thought of them as 220/221, whatever it takes).
OK Mr. "infrastructure appears in an instant". In 13 years, you think that every apartment will have at least one 240V plug for every unit.
Even if that proves to be true, what about families with more than one vehicle?
My son lives in Boston. His apartment doesn't have a lot. He gets a permit and parks on the street.
Will all the legal parking spots have these magic outlets? At 240V each?
But forget about the volts. It's the amps that matter when designing the infrastructure. How many amps will we be feeding? At night (when folks are home). With their AC on. Or their soon-to-be-mandated ELECTRIC heat in the winter.
This 13 year vision looks eerily similar to Disney's Tron.
Maybe if dear old Nicoli Tesla had won the war, we'd be able to embrace his wireless concept. But our ac/dc method can't possibly be upgraded to that degree in 13 years.
Hell, maybe never.
But you do love your mandates.
13 years is when they stop selling ICE in California.
Whaddaya think the year you can’t can buy a band new ICE car all other ICE cars vanish?
I got a buddy with a ‘70 Chevelle - how old is that?
Ok, maybe for you a car only last 12 months - bummer.
Riddle me this; does a 120 volt circuit and a 240 volt circuit both rated at 15 amps have the same power?
No sir, it is the watts that matter, not the amps. Come on, you know that (remember your engineering).
Picture and apartment block, each apartment with it’s own clothes dryer - and they all dry at once.
apocalypse, right?
Right so in Tron 2035, apartments have a clothes dryer plugs for their parking spots. Is that kind of futuristic technology even possible??? Guess we will find out.
Btw - loved the tesla ac/dc war comment.