Gale Hawkins
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No.“Experts estimate that we need to triple the capacity of our electrical vehicle transmission system by 2050.”
Does that mean that they only expect three times as many electric vehicles in 27 years, that is not many. Now electric vehicles are 5.5% of total vehicles, so are they only expecting around 20% by the year 2050?
Actually in many places the grid is fine if everybody bought EVs today. I know that is the case in my area in Kentucky and we live in the boonies. The decrease in electrical use from dairy farms and small business and stuff like that that needed three phase power. Many of those are long gone and out of busineess but in some places as you know like Texas California they make the news lot. But the grid is fine for people getting EVs today in many areas but it's not nationwide.
Half the people living today may be dead in another 30 years so there's going to be a whole mindset change and I'm not sure by 2050 is if we will not have another form of energy or source of electricity that we're not familiar with today.
The grid will not be a roadblock to the future.