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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:06AM (#15225373)
I get nightmares thinking what that will do to electricitry prices.

What about supply? Where does all the electricity to charge the cars come from? Is there enough surplus generating capacity in the system to support millions of EVs?

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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by raesene6 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:05AM (#15226059)
In the UK at least, new Offshore wind is now price comparable with other sources, and is getting cheaper.

Combining renewables (which can be intermittant) with EVs (which can recharge batteries) could actually work quite well.

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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by PixelB on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:15AM (#15226105)
We have plenty of energy supply in the system, we need to optimize our distribution.

We only use about 39% of the electricity we generate. I know that seems strange, but it's true.

https://c1cleantechnicacom-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/files/201...

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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by pjc50 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:22AM (#15226132)
You've misinterpreted "rejected energy" there, it's due to Carnot inefficiency not distribution problems.
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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by yaegers on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:31AM (#15225464)
Yup, that's the other thing. Obviously, the greens don't want nuclear power but so far, the renewable energy can't satisfy the current demand. Let alone an incresed one because of EV's.
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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by TaylorAlexander on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:23AM (#15225687)
Scarce electricity would raise prices, making solar more economical to install.
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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by singularity2001 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:35AM (#15225481)
Is it naïve to hope that solar will reach cost-parity just-in-time?
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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries by j7ake on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:41AM (#15225972)
Even if solar were same price as "dirty" energy what would be the rate at which you build solar to keep up with the increasing demand of energy ?
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