Re:US will relax pollution-limiting rules for vehicle emissions
by bryanlarsen on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:33AM
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Yes, we'd need about 20% more electricity generation if all cars were EV's.
Even if 100% of all new cars sold today were EV's, it'd still take 20 years before essentially all cars were EV's. Add the 10 years to get to that point. So we have 30 years to add 20% more electricity generation capacity.
We're currently adding 50GW of capacity per year to our 1.3TW current capacity. IOW, about 4% per year. At that rate it'll take about 5 years to add enough capacity to handle a 100% EV fleet.
Even if 100% of all new cars sold today were EV's, it'd still take 20 years before essentially all cars were EV's. Add the 10 years to get to that point. So we have 30 years to add 20% more electricity generation capacity.
We're currently adding 50GW of capacity per year to our 1.3TW current capacity. IOW, about 4% per year. At that rate it'll take about 5 years to add enough capacity to handle a 100% EV fleet.