I also wonder about how much cumulative time loss the charging times will create. If California goes all electric in a few years, has anyone run the numbers on this? I’m not against electric if it’s proven to be a better way (not for the environment because that is political not scientific). I love the acceleration and speed - the FW t that the damn thing is bullet proof. But a few things I haven’t heard anyone address.
- as said above Charging Time - won’t this cause massive gridlock if millions of Californians are waiting hours to charge?
- what about the fact that they already have rolling blackouts at times? Won’t have tens of millions of vehicles using hundreds of millions of charging hours be an enormous problem?
- what about transportation? California is a major hub for goods transported all over the country. If no combustion engine trucks are running in California and EVEN IF California solves the above issues - they trucks don’t all STAY in California… lol seems like the beginnings of a gigantic cluster fck!
Petrol you have to drive and line up to fill up
EV you plug in wt home and charge
Where are all these people driving 400km+ each day that they must go to charging stations?
I have a new Model Y Performance and I charge at home from Solar for free. Our petrol car now sits in the driveway as a backup, rarely gets used because the EV is so much easier to live with day to day.
We were told years ago Chins couldn’t possibly have EVs because their energy grid couldn’t support them. Shanghai is 50% EVs and they have no energy issues. My analyst lives in Shanghai and he rides an ebike everywhere, if they need a car they either Uber or rent an EV for the day.
In Australia we were told the same thing, now 9.5% of new cars sold are EVs. Solar panels on homes are much more commonplace than 4yrs ago.
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