The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030

Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030 by throw0101b on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:31PM (#35844034)

> it does seem to me that we have decided on a date for the solution (EVs) without high confidence that the dependencies (generation) will actually be ready by that date.

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon

Perhaps we should consider being more aspirational than practical.

> but besides that, I'm not convinced that EVs are the best solution to begin with.

I'm all for putting more effort into moving towards less car-centric and more human-centric developments, but until there's (more) progress on that front, we need to make parallel progress on reducing carbon in our current system:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

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Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030 by leetcrew on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:04PM (#35844378)

I think using a rare moment of broad public alignment to change our transit paradigm is a lot more aspirational than issuing patches to a fundamentally broken system.

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Re:The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030 by yellowapple on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:39PM (#35844704)

I suspect that broad public alignment would be far less broad and far less aligned the moment one suggests actually changing said transit paradigm to any significant degree.

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