Electric Vehicle Charging Insanity
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Tesla's supercharger network is ubiquitous enough. I worried about destination chargers six years ago. I don't worry about them today.
Not sure about non-Tesla EVs however.
The chargers are powered by Nuclear and Coal plants.
The physical electrical lines to get that power there are only so big and can only handle so much current.
They don't have room on the electrical grid to handle more than 6 Tesla chargers here or there.
They don't have near enough room on the electrical grid for 1 in 5 people to own an operate an electric vehicle. From our estimations and what I've been told by inspectors, only 3-5 homes per block could have a charger. The grids couldn't handle more without serious upgrades. No money for that.
The reality is they will turn Car ownership into a service. The average person will never own an electric car.
I don't know where you are getting your numbers, but the electric grid has way more capacity than that. Tesla's superchargers are consuming 10x more power than my home charger and they have 12-20 of them in a parking lot. That's like 200 level 2 home chargers in one spot.
At my house, the Air Conditioning uses 10KW and the Tesla charger uses 10KW. I can run both at the same time, sure, but normally run AC during day and Tesla at night.
However, the power grid gets overloaded on hot days by everyone using AC... I expect the same will happen when everyone is charging their EV at night. So upgrades are needed, but maybe 20-30% more capacity, not 100% or 200% more.