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Old 12-13-2023, 12:42 PM   #61
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Re: More on EVs from a guy trying to sell them

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Originally Posted by 67C10Step View Post
With many parts of the country already seeing an overtaxed electrical grid there is no way the load of EV's can be supported. On the generation side there is war going on and the consumer is going to come up short. In just my area, there is almost 3000 megawatts scheduled to go offline by 2028 and thus far the replacement has been 700 megawatts of solar. Not to mention, the 3000 gets produced 24 hours a day and the solar does not.
Try telling that to anti-ICE zealots. Many of whom, ironically, are also against power generation plants except for solar and wind, which as you pointed out are weather and sunlight dependent.
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