Ok - why?

You must have detailed knowledge of the capacity, load and duty cycles that add up to "won't work".
Wanna share?

Brewha wrote:

As someone that works on and repairs the grid for a major electrical company I can tell you, you are wrong. Plus engineers don't really know what they think they do. You may be book smart but you really have no clue how things work. As somebody who has to build save repair what "engineers" make, I know more than you think. And at the end of it, us workers always have the final word when it comes to smart engineers because they don't actually do, they only think.

Cheno wrote:

Most of the grid is overloaded as is, generation stations are over worked because more keep shutting down with crap legislation that some dummy comes up with. Plus transformers are all over worked. They are using them everywhere above the loaded capacity which can be done for some time. Example of they are using equipment at 125 percent of capacity, the equipment will work out just will get hotter and breakdown years before it should. We got equipment that's over 65 years old that works just fine still but isn't over worked. I've seen new equipment gets over worked and fails in 10 years. In order for it to work, current transmission and current substations would need major renovations, examples being more equipment like transformers, cap banks, breakers, etc. plus they will need to add stations to be able to monitor and control equipment with relays and back up battery systems so things can be controlled remotely so outages minus (storm damage) can be fixed faster. With the way the Grid system is now, if everyone were to get electric vehicles tomorrow and try to charge it will fail. How many states/areas already have brown out or rolling outages? Can all single family homes handle getting a charger for the house, with some work yes. However, most older homes have 100 amp service especially the houses built in 50s. They didn't have all the electric we have now. I guarantee that more than 75% of those jokes were not retrofitted in the kitchen too have everything wired the right way as it should be with all the code now. Meaning things that should be on its own breakers, upping the wire size. Also what about apartment building area. They would need more chargers for the tenants but the power coming to those buildings isn't gonna be able to handle all the extra chargers with out major upgrades to the system as well. You got to be able to think to understand and see the WHOLE picture. Not just what you have. Not everyone in the world lives in good areas or single family homes or new areas. The older areas have equipment that's older than 100 years. it was built to last back then.

Cheno wrote:

Texas is noted for having major electrical grid problems. A few years ago people died from the power going off in large areas during the freeze of winter.

I think we can agree that the electrical grid in general needs more renovation and expansion - electric cars or not. Just the population growth alone creates a never ending issue.

So the govmut tells people to use less power and mandates LED light bulbs and buy more efficient AC units - and people cry.
They incentivise wind and solar - and people cry.
So we should spend more on the grid? People cry about that too.



But - if all the companies upgraded their grids tomorrow it would work. Can't be done - takes years - a never ending process.

It is estimated that the earliest the US could go all EV is 2050 - 25 years from now. Prolly more like 40 years from now.

For what it is worth, the first wave of EV adoption (say the next 5-10 years) will be predominantly people who charge at home overnight - off hours - off peak.

Brewha wrote:

Dang LHD....ya had one on the hook at let it go.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Bravo, my brother... BRAVO! =d> =d>

MACS wrote:

Dang LHD....ya had one on the hook at let it go.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

I’m just kinda sitting back laughing! Work is a bit busy right now. I’m booked out until the end of 2026 right now.

HockeyDad wrote:

Which mountain..?? 😕

There's prolly Bigfoots up there... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

There's prolly Bigfoots up there... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

Now I’m curious how you know he has big feet….

ZRX1200 wrote:

Now I’m curious how you know he has big feet….

ZRX1200 wrote:

Now I’m curious how you know he has big feet….

ZRX1200 wrote: