None of those cars are that cheap and you ignore the electric l
What do you mean they're not that cheap. That's how much they're selling for right now. Check sites like truecar.com yourself. If you don't believe that, email a dealership and pretend you want to buy one.
Electricity is $0.13/kWh at night for me. That works out to $0.026 per mile fuel cost for me. If you were driving a 30 mpg gas car it would be the same as paying 78 cents a gallon for gas.
California. Rolling blackouts. Now how the hell are they gonna power 20 million electric cars?
Probably by not charging during the afternoon on days with record heat. Nobody's doing that anyway because electricity is stupid expensive in the afternoon. You can pay $0.13/kWh to charge at night, or $0.53/kWh to charge in the afternoon.
20 million electric cars driving ~40 miles per day (15,000 miles a year) would need 75,000,000 Mwh of electricity per year. California's electrical grid capacity is around 415,810,920 MWh per year. Adding 20 million electric cars increases electrical demand by 18%.
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