TVA brought rural Tennessee Valley into the modern era in the 1930s. By the mid 1970s, they undertook to build 17 nuclear power plants essentially at the same time despite quite a bit of protests. By the early 1980s, construction cost overruns and rising interest rates meant that they were about to bankrupt themselves, and so they walked away from the program after spending a rather incredible amount of money.
For the most part, there hasn't been a problem with electrical power supply in Tennessee until last December when there were rolling backouts during a severe cold spell. But add EV demand onto it, and things could get problematic.
I'm not familiar with other areas of the US, but understand the TVA has been able to utilize our rivers to generate power where other states are not so fortunate, also suggesting to me that adding EVs to the power grid would be problematic when you look at the difficulty and expense of adding more power generation plants.
Given the power supply situation, what was Ford thinking going so headlong into the production of so many expensive EV's?
