You may need to get your news from better sources, like Wall Street
Journal, NY Times, Wash Post. The current administration's
infrastructure plans call for significantly beefing up generation
capacity and well as distribution. Just as current capacity is quite
sufficient for the current number of EVs, as more are sold, so will
there be more power.
I'll be 80 in the fall; we bought a Tesla Model 3 as our contribution to
leaving our planet for our grandchildren. It IS much more economical to
run and maintain over the long term, but it's unlikely we'll be able to
drive it long enough for it to pay US back. We love the car -- it's
quite well engineered. Several neighboring hams, including N6TV, W6JTI,
W0YK, W3AB, and W6GJB drive an EV -- mostly Tesla, but also Chevy Bolt.
All are made in the USA, and all of us are quite happy with them. They
have STRONG acceleration, handle well, and are a pleasure to drive.
My wife is also quite happy with the Prius she bought about six years
ago. Meanwhile, my big Toyota 2006 SUV, bought new in 2005, sits in our
driveway, with about 210,000 miles on it, not having moved in nearly a
year. We're keeping for hauling stuff too big for the cars we drive
every day. I loved it for all of the 15 years it was my primary vehicle,
but it drinks three times as much gas as the Prius.
73, Jim K9YC
On 4/11/2021 4:21 PM, Lloyd - N9LB wrote:
I saw a news report that the US does not have nearly enough generating
capacity to charge all the forthcoming electric vehicles.
So we will have to ration the electricity for charging the batteries in your
electric vehicle. Every other Tuesday from Midnight to 6am?
Another option would be to install gas fired home generators to charge up
your vehicle. Seems like we are running in a circle here.
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