My prediction - As our population and the number of EVs continues to grow, the state will add more and more generating capacity. It will be expensive and always behind schedule and we'll pay for it all, whether you own an EV or not. After we pay for it, we'll be charged high rates to consume it. A generation or two downstream, it'll all seem normal.

My prediction - As our population and the number of EVs continues to grow, the state will add more and more generating capacity. It will be expensive and always behind schedule and we'll pay for it all, whether you own an EV or not. After we pay for it, we'll be charged high rates to consume it. A generation or two downstream, it'll all seem normal.

The whole grid problem is BS IMO. If they wanted to solve it, they could. Don't shut down coal until the alternative is proven and producing more energy than the plants you close. Then you add to that people who don't like Texas energy independence. And more...

What he said.

Yesterday or day before I read where Tesla owners got a message from Tesla to avoid charging their cars during peak hours of electric use (3-8PM). The message continued that this wojuld lessen the strain on the already fragile grid. How can anybody believe that it will get so much better in the near future with way more EV's on the road? A child could figure this out.

The whole grid problem is BS IMO. If they wanted to solve it, they could. Don't shut down coal until the alternative is proven and producing more energy than the plants you close. Then you add to that people who don't like Texas energy independence. And more...

Huge housing subdivisions every where. Think about the implications.

Yesterday or day before I read where Tesla owners got a message from Tesla to avoid charging their cars during peak hours of electric use (3-8PM). The message continued that this wojuld lessen the strain on the already fragile grid. How can anybody believe that it will get so much better in the near future with way more EV's on the road? A child could figure this out.

Saw on news the other day that only 2% of vehicles on the road are electric. Can’t imagine the drain on the grid if more people had them.

Which is easy to do with a bit of pre-planning. If I tell the car I want it ready by 7am for my wife to go to work, it won’t start charging until later in the evening. There is a lot of reserve power available during the night time hours as power plants continue to generate electricity even without much demand. Several years ago, I had a friend living in the Czech Republic and they had low night time rates for electric usage. So that’s when he would run his boiler for the steam to heat the house. Later on, I started seeing TOU (time of use) type billing plans here in the US also to motivate people to put off running things like dishwashers and clothes dryers until the overnight hours. Ever hear of Reliant’s Free Nights and Weekends plan?

Every time this EV subject comes up, I see a lot of willful ignorance get posted. People just looking for a reason to take a dump on an idea. I’m darn sure not a liberal and I don’t really care if it’s green or not. I just like the experience and the perceived benefits offered by electric propulsion.

I know Tesla operates battery recycling plants. They also repurpose cells that are no longer performing to spec in the EV into their Powerwall offering.

Toxic waste? Maybe. I don’t know the answer as we humans do generate lots and lots of waste of all sorts. I envision someday it might be economically viable or necessary to just load a cargo rocket with waste and launch it at the sun. That ought to bun up any and all materials to their core.

But when it comes to breathable air, thousands of EVs filling the roads of major cities aren’t going to create the emissions that internal combustion engines do, despite all the advances in emissions reductions.

Time will tell whether or not the EV was a good idea in the overwhelming majority of vehicles. Wouldn’t be the first time we humans thought something was a good idea, only to later find out it wasn’t after all.

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