Comment by tedk-42
12 hours ago
Lol yes lets just casually plug into a 1.2MW charger and not take down the electricity of the nearby town while I charge my truck.
Nuclear trucks and boats are what I envision so maybe I'm the one who needs a reality check.
Electrifying all transport in the nation would increase electricity load by 20%.
But even if 100% of all vehicles sold today was electric, it would still take ~20 years before almost 100% of vehicles on the road were electric. And it's not, so we're probably looking at > 30 years to increase electricity load by 20%.
That annual increase is far less than the increase caused by data centers. It's about the same as the annual increase in load caused by increased use of air conditioning.
Around where I live, we have electric car ferries.
To avoid having to upgrade the grid massively, we use large battery banks shoreside which are being charged at a sustainable (to the grid) rate, then the ferry charges rapidly by depleting the battery bank, leaving the grid alone.
Works a charm.
Well, of course countries would have to modernize their electrical grid. But that's a good outcome.