Good question. The answer is not currently. The grid must be grown with fossil and nuclear else this becomes impossible.
The amount of required growth for a total conversion requires the same amount of grid growth and capacity of the US from the 1960s to the 1980s. It's doable. But no one is. Instead people are pushing pseudo-green technologies which only serve to reduce grid capacity and reliability while driving energy costs upward.
The current market has declared it will not support EVs at scale. Period. Until you start reading about very large grid developments for fossil and nuclear power plants, EVs are a dead end, regardless of the battery technology involved.
grid needs at least triple capacity it has now if the majority used a EV. Thats a lot more coal thats a lot more diesel rigs to fix the wires
Anyone with 2 braincells to rub together would realize that there's no fucking way every American could go home at night and plug in their car to a 50A power outlet for 6 hours. Especially with every family having 2 incomes, thus 2 cars, thus 100A to charge vehicles alone.
Oh I'm sorry did you want to cook supper? That's too fucking bad.
Most come with delayed charging. But your point remains valid.
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