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Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030 by jonhohle on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:27PM (#35843456)
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.

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Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030 by throwaway50606 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:29PM (#35843479)
How do you charge that small battery? Going to the powerplant with it doesn't seem like a good answer.
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Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030 by jonhohle on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:40PM (#35844709)
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.

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