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Been reading a number of articles lately on electrification of cars.\u00a0 First off, I’m all over the idea: as long as the transition is painless.<\/em> My needs are simple – point A to point B, most trips not exceeding 100 miles in a day, occasional jaunts elsewhere probably (but possibly) not exceeding 600 miles a day\u00a0 for multiple days. Probably 1-2 passengers, not much towing, minimal reasonable amenities (A\/C, cruise, windows\/locks, sound system. Other than the folks here where I live who really USE trucks, and the idiots who feel like they need the world’s largest OK, let’s loop back to “painless.” Ignorance abounds – HOAs and apartment buildings outlawing electric cars for fear of fires – the rate that they burn is really low., Happen? Sure. Too, I own a Korean import and the company advised we park it outside temporarily as an esoteric corrosion malfunction (of which there had been 3) could occur. Three? I’ll park the car inside, thanks. I am a lot more worried about Texas sun than Korean fires. But say I buy an electric car…I have 220V in my garage. Many, if not most, don’t.\u00a0 Second – as mentioned above, I live in the Free State of Texas which, for all it’s plusses, does not have the best power grid around. Been a helluva hot summer and so far it has coped…but what if there were 200,000 electric cars on the road adding to the load? Probably not happening. Biden’s proposed 2\/3 electric mandate by 2032 projects 200 million electric\u00a0 cars by then – noting there are about 3 million now. We need to DOUBLE our power generation by then according to Elon Musk.\u00a0 How many power plants have you seen open lately?<\/p>\n Second, even the Biden administration itself admitted in May that such an expansion of the grid will require at least 47,000 miles of new high-voltage transmission capacity. Telegraph<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let’s think about that…the TransWest high-voltage transmission line project took EIGHTEEN YEARS to secure all the needed permitting and was approved in June. One, single, 732-mile project.\u00a0 18 years – and it addresses .01557 of the needed total. How many other transmission projects do you see coming up? Enough to handle 60 times that – in half the time? And note, that is just permitting, not building. Or the current four-year lead time for high-voltage transformers… hmm.<\/p>\n Hopefully I may never have to buy another car in my life time. But seeing what I see now, gas or electric? I am probably going to continue to worry about the price of\u00a0 gas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"penis<\/del> vehicle when they drive, I think that is a reasonable description of most folks’ needs? More pax for families, of course.\u00a0 One would think a reasonably priced vehicle would be easy enough. So why are most electric cars $40K and up? (for that matter, why are almost all passenger vehicles over $20K?)<\/p>\n