Analysts See Oil Demand Peaking by 2030 as Electric Vehicles Boom

Re:Analysts See Oil Demand Peaking by 2030 as Electric Vehic... by rohit2412 on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:29PM (#16208082)

While home solar is great, it is nowhere as reliable as the grid. You can have days when the sun doesn't shine. You expect the grid to bear your super heavy load (once every home goes ev and solar) on cloudy days and don't use it any other day. The grid is going to get much more costlier than you know, or there will be a hefty grid connection fee

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Re:Analysts See Oil Demand Peaking by 2030 as Electric Vehic... by pm90 on Monday January 22, 2018 @07:24PM (#16209619)

Let me be clear that I'm not advocating for getting rid of the grid. Like you said, on days when local generation doesn't meet demand, the grid will be very useful. What I'm saying is that local generation would supplement the grid; perhaps make it so that it can handle the additional loads put on it by millions of Electric Vehicles.

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