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Old 07-01-2014, 12:01 AM   #22 (permalink)
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One synthetic oil manufacturer is advertizing they make theirs from natural gas, but how much would the power grid need to improve to cover 100+ million electric cars.
The energy to refine a gallon of gasoline can power a Nissan Leaf for about 20-22 miles and we already have a surplus of electricity at night, that is the main reason we have street lights, to use up the night time surplus, so swap the street light on your block to an LED light and swap the most used bulbs in your house to LED and your power company will see a drop in demand even with EV charging.
As it is tho, the grid shouldn't see much change, the Nissan Leaf my parents just got has a 13amp 120v charging cord that they are using, getting a window AC unit will have a larger impact on the grid.
Even if you get a 240v 30amp charging cord it shouldn't have a huge impact unless you are charging at peek times of day and the car has two timers you can set to automatically turn on the on board charger.
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