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Part 4- Fundamental Barriers for Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

To be clear, I am not suggesting that EV owners in China never bring their cars out of their garages or parking spots. It is just that car owners living in urban megalopolises drive significantly shorter distances and less often than their equivalents in USA or even west European countries. This fact has a huge effect on how much domestic EV charging strains the residential electric supply grid. To put it another way, Chinese megalopolises can support a noticeably higher number of EVs because they are charged less often.

Part 5- Fundamental Barriers for Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

Hence a single 40-outlet supercharger station has same power draw as about 1000-1200 houses, and this brings up the next question, how would the power draw from such a highly variable drain affect the stability of local electricity network? This becomes an especially relevant question as building it in a suburban area of a city would be much cheaper than in its urban or commercial parts of that city. How can we ensure consistent electric supply to the suburb subdivision around a supercharger station sharing the power distribution network if the power draw is so large and only semi-predictable? Putting supercharger stations on their own grid simply pushes the underlying problem to a different part of power system.

Part 6- Fundamental Barriers for Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

At this point, I should be clear that these pathetic, short-sighted and failed attempts at money and power-grab by over-socialized sociopathic “theater kids” are not harmless. As mentioned before, their actions have resulted in some west European countries such as Germany, UK etc spending hundreds of billions for erecting worthless wind-turbines, solar arrays, unnecessary tinkering with electricity distribution system etc. Their actions have also started to cause serious damage to many power-intensive industries in Europe, car manufacturers and their suppliers and much more. So these PMC parasites have caused a lot of resource misallocation and hurt the future of their own countries.

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Part 1- Fundamental Barriers for Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

For starters- technological, logistical and economic factors and considerations always supersede any attempts to push for adoption of new technologies. No amount of pushing and cajoling could have displaced steam trains and ships unless the alternatives were at least as good, more reliable and cheaper. On land, diesel engines were no competition for steam until diesel engines became more reliable, the diesel-electric drive was developed and diesel fuel was readily available. Similarly electric trains became a threat to steam only after the electric grid which powered them became reliable and widespread after WW2.

Part 2- Fundamental Barriers for Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

For example- by 1900, gasoline-powered engines were a common but still not dominant sight in smaller factories and workshops- and hundreds of thousands of such engine were already being made by multiple manufacturers all over the world. In the same year, total number of automobiles in the entire world still stood at barely 10-20 thousand. However by 1910, there were almost half a million automobiles in the world, with almost 90% of them being in USA. Even in 1939, over 2/3rds of all automobiles in the world were in USA- despite Western European countries having similar income levels.

Part 3- Fundamental Barriers for Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

Residential electric consumption accounts for about 40% of total electricity production, and universal EV usage would increase that by 50-100% (1-2 EVs per household + factoring in transmission losses). In other words, it would be necessary to increase total reliable electricity production by ~ 20- 40%. But why does it have to be of ‘reliable’ kind instead of wind or solar power? The short answer is that maintaining a stable electric grid requires the maximum projected power demand to be readily available from reliable sources. Also, storing generated electricity is far more complicated, costly and dangerous than storing gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, water in a dam or nuclear fuel.

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