Thursday, March 31, 2022

When There’s Not Enough Electricity for Electric Vehicles; ‘May not make dinner’: Video shows huge line of electric vehicles waiting to charge; Why electric vehicles are a bad investment

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When There’s Not Enough Electricity for Electric Vehicles:
The more I look at the energy “transition,” the “race to net zero,” call it what you will, the more it strikes me that it hasn’t been — how to put this — very well thought through. This is not particularly surprising; exercises in central planning rarely are. The only real question is how bad the consequences will be.
Bloomberg:
California’s demand for electricity could nearly double by 2045 as the state phases out gasoline-guzzling automobiles and weans buildings off natural gas.

Load on the state’s grid could rise 60% to 90% as a flood of electric vehicles hits roads and people swap out gas-burning stoves and hot water heaters for electric ones, according to a study prepared for California regulators by the consulting firm Energy and Environmental Economics Inc.
Well, good luck with that.
Writing on Capital Matters yesterday about the math of renewables, Jonathan Lesser looked at a few, uncomfortable facts. His data relate to the nation as a whole, rather than just California, but it’s easy enough to work out that there will be, uh, logistical issues in the Golden State too. --->READ MORE HERE
‘May not make dinner’: Video shows huge line of electric vehicles waiting to charge:
A woman stopped for gas in Louisiana when she noticed a full charging station for electric vehicles across the street — but it was the long line of Teslas waiting for a turn that stood out to her.
“That is priceless,” Candace London Metz said in a video posted on Facebook. “Oh! It’s a double row now! Double row! Double row of people waiting to charge. No thanks. I’ll keep to my $5 gallon gas."
Metz said she wondered why there was such a backup, so she pulled over and asked one man who was charging.
“He said normally 30 [minutes,] but these stations are running slow due to demand, so it’s over an hour per car,” Metz wrote in her post, which has gone viral with 90,000 shares.
Metz noted the number of cars and the time it would take to work through such a line.
“Hope those people have food and clothes. They may not make dinner,” she said. --->WATCH and READ MORE HERE
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Why electric vehicles are a bad investment

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