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Old 03-30-2011, 01:58 PM   #5 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Varn View Post
Our electric grid could not sustain mass use of electric vehicles. We have not made the investment in the infrastructure to increase usage. Nice idea that won't go anywhere without the electric grid being beefed up.
Chicken and egg problem. There's no reason to beef up the electric grid to handle electric vehicles unless you have a lot of electric vehicles to handle.

But when we do start to get meaningful numbers of EVs, the grid modifications will follow, same as when electricity use increased for other reasons, such as A/C.
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