Whoa, there Barg..easy on the name calling. I’m very pro EV - despite it not making economic sense, my next car will be one. I’m thinking of the new Jaguar I-Pace.
There are NOT hundreds of thousands of EVs in the US nor in Europe nor in China. Unless, of course, you’re counting scooters... which because of their tiny consumption don’t really count. To date all the electric car manufacturers build for a tiny niche market. Tesla, Nissan, BYD, Jaguar and a couple of others have tiny production runs.
Do the sums: it takes roughly 15KWh of battery energy to drive 100km. Most homes consume about that much every day and the grid just copes with this demand.
Average mileage in Australia is around 15,000 per annum or 41 km per day which is 6 KWh per day. Now if every second house had an EV, this means demand would go up by around 20%. The grid couldn’t cope with 20% more demand.
Solar and wind are not sufficiently reliable. This leaves coal to power your car. Without which, mass uptake of EVs will be doomed.
