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Lol yes lets just casually plug into a 1.2MW charger and not take down the electricity of the nearby town while I charge my truck. Nuclear trucks and boats are
by tedk-42 7mo ago
Lol yes lets just casually plug into a 1.2MW charger and not take down the electricity of the nearby town while I charge my truck.
Nuclear trucks and boats are what I envision so maybe I'm the one who needs a reality check.
- shaky-carrousel 7mo agoWell, of course countries would have to modernize their electrical grid. But that's a good outcome.
- lb1lf 7mo agoAround where I live, we have electric car ferries. To avoid having to upgrade the grid massively, we use large battery banks shoreside which are being charged at a sustainable (to the grid) rate, then the ferry charges rapidly by depleting the battery bank, leaving the grid alone. Works a charm.
- bryanlarsen 7mo agoElectrifying all transport in the nation would increase electricity load by 20%. But even if 100% of all vehicles sold today was electric, it would still take ~20 years before almost 100% of vehicles on the road were electric. And it's not, so we're probably looking at > 30 years to increase electricity load by 20%. That annual increase is far less than the increase caused by data centers. It's about the same as the annual increase in load caused by increased use of air conditioning.