Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
by mbgerring on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:01PM
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I am literally building an electric jerry can in my workshop right now so that you can carry around car recharges in your trunk. There are solutions to all of these problems and the technology is getting better all the time. All you have to do is stop looking for reasons why it can never work, and start looking for ways to make it work.
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Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
by throwaway50606 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:03PM
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I'm not sure how that helps if the grid is already nearly overloaded and we need gas/coal to cover peak demand. The problem is not the charger and its small battery, the problem is generating clean power and transmitting it.
Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
by jonhohle on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:27PM
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He’s solving the transmission problem. A portable battery does not need to be charged from the grid.
Edit to add: I have about 1.2kW of storage that can be charged by solar in a few hours that takes up about the space of a 5 gallon NATO jerry can. It can be charged thousands of time for the initial price paid. That’s with 2020 tech. Certainly density and efficiency will improve as market pressures increase.
Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
by throwaway50606 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:29PM
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How do you charge that small battery? Going to the powerplant with it doesn't seem like a good answer.
Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
by jonhohle on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:40PM
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I don’t know if you saw my edit, but in my case, it’s charged by either a portable solar panel or (optimally) home solar panels.
In the not so distant past there were plans for neighborhood scale nuclear reactors. That would go a long way towards distribution, redundancy, and scale issues.