Electric vehicles are not ready to replace combustion engines: https://www.bitchute.com/video/upZCaVWDtQlt/
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ICYMI - Electric cars setting themselves on fire in a row:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/so-you-want-a-electric-car-do-you_Jh5emjR2IBsktLq.html
Yes it will happen.
The power supply and the grid will both be improved over time as demand for electricity outpaces supply. There have been so many times technology has driven massive changes in how we do things as a society.
It isn't like people are going to say, oh electric cars are pretty cool. Too bad we can never have them because our power generation and distribution systems are lousy cannot be improved.
That's not how it works in capitalist economies. The people get what the people want.
The internal combustion engine is a goner, at least as a mainstream method for powering vehicles. If you are an Electrical Engineer specializing in power utilities, this is a good thing for you. Your expertise will be highly sought after.
Yes it will cost money. But as the cost for power rises, that makes the power companies a more attractive investment for investors. And that is the key. It isn't taxpayer money that builds power plants and lines. It is people's retirement funds. Vast sums of money flow from one industry to another as investors see profit potential.
And it won't happen all at once. It will happen over 10 to 20 years.
But it will happen. Electric cars are smooth, quiet, fast, and low-maintenance. And most of the time you never have to go to a public charging station. Just plug it in when you get home. No more standing in the cold rain and wind. They are just better all around. And that is why the ICE is already dead.
I picture you as wearing sandals and a ponytail. Wearing a biden button and a foam helmet.
What will happen is Hydrogen vehicles and / or the goal of no private ownership of vehicles.
To make Hydrogen fuel you can
burn coal or natural gas - if you can generate enough hydrogen to power the worlds cars by building Avogadro's Number of new fossil fuel plants, you might has just build power plants instead.
Ferment Biomass. This doesn't see like you could power the world's cars and trucks by doing that. How much biomass would be needed to fill the hydrogen equivalent of a 26 gallon tank of gasoline?
Direct Solar - Another thing that takes up too much space considering how much hydrogen you'd need.
Or you can use electrical power (Electrolysis) - so we're back to ailing power grid.
Sauce:
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydrogen/production-of-hydrogen.php
So I don't really see hydrogen is a viable alternative to just electric cars with better batteries in them that can be charged faster. Or an automatic battery swapping system instead of gas stations.
Since you are an expert on the electricity grid, whats your view on the source of new generation? Also the problem of the distribution grid being maxed out (both tx and local dist)? Hydrogen can be produced at the source of production such as a new hydro development and then transported as chemical energy. A supplement to petrol and some electric vehicles. The long and short of it is petrol is going nowhere for the foreseeable future if society does not want to come to a schreeching halt.
I really look forward to your wise and scientific input.
Wow you have such a chip on your shoulder, fren. Relax.
We don't have to agree on electric cars. I think it is plain they are taking over, you don't. I wasn't convinced by your arguments, and you weren't convinced by mine.