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Originally Posted by Buzz
Deficiencies in electricity distribution due to poor planning and allocation of budgeted funds occur all over the world. In every industry the combination of incompetence, politics and shortage of money will always lead to corners being cut in areas that come back to bite when things go bad.
It's the constantly repeated message from people who simply can't abide the very idea of electric vehicles that there's this huge overlooked issue of grid overload that makes EV's non-viable that makes me chuckle. Does anyone really believe that pundits on car forums are privy to this groundbreaking revelation and that industry moguls, scientists, infrastructure planners and engineers have never had it occur to them?  |
If you ask the planners they have been planning for incremental growth which is slowly, over time. Just like water, high load service areas can be upgraded as demand increases, but it's not overnight.
EVs are a paradigm shift - trading one source of energy for another. This is incremental usage that occurs, in the scale of time as utilities plan, "suddenly" and in areas that have had the same capacity for decades.
There will be capacity issues, but my guess is they will occur locally first since transformers are "right sized" and not capable of suddenly supplying twice the load...