Re: electric car companies engaged in planned obsolescence???

On 29 Aug, 01:00, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Ghrist <notmyn...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
strollivari...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
any comments on this?:

 ELECTRIC CAR COMPANIES ENGAGING IN PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE???

Every major electric car on today's market is equipped with only a
110volt a.c. electrical plug for plugging into house current (the
electric company) in order to charge a BUILT-IN  battery pack.

The companies know that as soon as enough of their cars are sold, and
thousands of them are plugged into the grid at night- this will
overload the grid and cause power outages.(witness summer outages in
California and the east due to airconditioning, hot water, etc
demands)

These outages and the resulting necessity of enlarging the grid
capacity will cause electric rates to rise dramatically!

http://tinyurl.com/68qg3n

 RICHLAND, Wash., July 14 (UPI) -- Off-peak electricity production
could fuel 70 percent of the 220 million vehicles on U.S. roads if
they were plug-in hybrid electrics, a study found.

The study, performed for the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., indicates replacing
vehicles solely powered by gasoline engines with hybrids powered by
off-peak electricity could improve air quality by using existing
infrastructure more efficiently, the laboratory said in a news release
Monday.

Batteries for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could store enough
energy to meet the nation's 33-mile average commute, researchers
said. If drivers charged vehicles overnight when demand for
electricity is low, most regions of the country would have plenty of
off-peak generation, transmission and distribution capacity to handle
that region's hybrid vehicles.

"Since gasoline consumption accounts for 73 percent of imported oil,
it is intriguing to think of the national security benefits if our
vehicles switched from oil to electrons," lab energy researcher Rob
Pratt said.
The extra electricity needed to power the vehicles would come from
coal-fired and natural gas-fired plants, researchers said. While these
power plants emit greenhouse gases, overall levels would drop because
electricity is more efficient to move a vehicle one mile than
producing and burning gasoline.

And the CO2 problem would be trivially fixed by using nukes instead.

and or renewables. With some intelligence in the grid, the variable
output of wind turbines is not an issue for charging electric
vehicles.
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