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Originally Posted by RalphH
To take it a step further - putting charging stations in is MUCH easier than putting gas stations in. The infrastructure of moving and storing vast quantities of flammable liquid vs plugging into the mains electricity we already have running to almost everywhere there are people is far more complex.
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I disagree with this. You are not accounting for scale.
According to
www.eia.gov, the US consumes 391M gallons of gasoline daily. That's 1.48B liters.
At 9.5 kilowatt watt hours per liter, we're talking 9.5kW*hr/liter * 1.48B liters = 14,060,000,000 kilowatt hours of energy required to fulfill our DAILY personal transportation needs in this country.
That's 5,131,900,000,000 kilowatt hours per year.
^That's 5.1 Trillion kw-hr per year - for our transportation needs.
I couldn't find statistics for our 2019 electrical usage, but in 2018, the USA consumed 3.95 Trillion kw-hr of electricity... According to
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...on-since-1975/
So, for the USA to replace gasoline cars with EV's, we'd need to increase our ability to produce, process, convey and transform electricity by 130%. Well more than double what we currently have.
Question: is it really that easy to just "plonk charging stations wherever we want"??
Where is all this electricity going to come from? Our power stations don't have enough headroom to see even a 20% increase in output.
How is all that electricity going to be conveyed? The grid isn't capable of conveying that much juice, even if it were available.