Stormy Daniels
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The power grid was not designed to charge 300 million cars at night.
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As opposed to 900 million cell phones and tablets? I'm not sure power grid capacity is going to be an effective argument here. There is far less power consumption going on overnight than the rest of the day.
Oh God didn't anyone take a basic Electrical class here?
Most homes have 100amp or 200 amp service, a fucking cell phone or tablet pulls less then 1 amp... Your clothes dryer , a telsa and a Chevy volt will max it out over 100 amps and you would need a 200amp service upgrade between $15,000 and $30,000.
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Oh God, didn't anyone take a basic logic class here?
You got the point halfway, but then jumped backwards and abandoned it. What makes you think that 300 million cars are going to be plugged in and charging at any given moment? It doesn't really matter how many cars are out there, the issue would be total consumption at a given moment. People don't typically run their clothes dryer overnight while they are sleeping, and they don't have a whole other assortment of electric consuming behaviors going on at that time, either.
You make it sound like there is some kind of hard coded catastrophe in store if more people buy electric cars as time goes on, and there's simply no basis for that suggestion. Perhaps, 10 years from now, if improvements and maintenance don't keep up then there could be a problem that arises. But hey, 75 years ago the power grid simply wasn't built to support the consumption of 325 million people. Continual upgrades and improvements is the norm.