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Re:In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults by sandworm101 on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:11AM (#49952838)
Lol, 11,000 is for all the city-bound teslas that only drive from suburb to the office. Actual average car use is closer to 25,000km/year (15,000 miles is the us average). But cars are not all road users. The "100 teslas/hour" standard is to accomidate trucks too.

If you are planning infrastructure like highways, national averages are irrelevant. It is the same debate that Hertz had when it dropped teslas: charging infrastructure is local and rental car locations (airports) cannot support the needed power density.

Re:In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults by thelastgallon on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:14AM (#49952861)
Re:In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults by thelastgallon on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:38AM (#49953406)
Averages are meaningless. You need to understand trips.

28% of trips are under a mile, 52% under three, 64% under five, 79% under ten, 93% under twenty-five, and 98% under 50 miles.

Only 0.8% of the trips are over 100 miles!

> Lol, 11,000 is for all the city-bound teslas that only drive from suburb to the office.

Most countries have electricity at home and at office. They can charge at both locations. If you are still using kerosene lamps and haven't started using electricity at home, you have bigger problems than charging infrastructure.

Re:In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults by iso1631 on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:44AM (#49954895)
You provide no evidence of the number of cars or the kilometres driven

23.5 million light-duty vehicles

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241021/dq241...

If each one were to drive 25,000 km (way higher than the NJC assume on https://www.njc-cnm.gc.ca/s3/d896/en, way higher than the insurance complanies say is the average - https://affiliatedinsurance.ca/blogs/how-average-mileage-per...)

It would require electricity to provide for 587500 million km of driving each year, that's about 118,000 million kWh, or 118 TWh.

Your statement

> 10kwh x 100 x 24 = 24,000kwh Solar panels

Is tricky to understand what you are on abbout as it's not clear what on earth you mean by this as solar panels aren't measured in kWh. kWh per year perhaps.

You are talking about delivering power to a specific location, not generating power. This is an argument from a decade ago, reality has proven that isn't a problem.

For what its worth, I drive over 30,000 km a year and very rarely use a public charger.