A reminder that electric cars use as much power as an entire household and each household has around two cars.
LOL. Do you live in a mini-house? Electric cars drive 4 miles for every kWh. My house uses enough power to drive over 4,000 miles per month. Do you drive 48,000 miles per year? I don't.
48k miles can be split between two or three cars.
Also, not every vehicle is a tiny ass car that you have.
48k miles can be split between two or three cars.
And driving 48,000 miles in a gas car would cost the average American about $6,500 at today's gas prices. The electricity to drive 48,000 miles would cost the average American $1,668. $5,000 right in your pocket. Sounds like a communist conspiracy to me.
Also, not every vehicle is a tiny ass car that you have.
Is 4,000 lbs tiny for a sedan?
First you are assuming electricity prices will be the same.
If you have 300 million people going to EVs, they are going to plug a lot of them in, and the grid will have to be expanded with new lines, transformers, switches, and the maintenance will all those new components.
The cost of electricity will certainly go up. Gasoline was half the price only a year or two ago. Most of that price increase is due to politics.
Is 4,000 lbs tiny for a sedan?
That tells me nothing of the size. Something like a current F350 would have too little range for its square shape and size.
Most importantly, all this shift to EVs is political, it has nothing to do about saving the planet.
They want a smart grid where they can have more control. Sure you can charge with solar at home, but what are you going to do about refilling on a trip if the grid is down, either do to natural disaster or the gov't limiting the consumption with their smart grid.
It's not the cost of electricity, it's going to be the added cost everyone's going to have to pay for all the extra infrastructure to provide all that extra electricity. It isn't safe to assume it scales linearly and it most likely does not.
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