While GM announced the they have plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035 on January 28, its only today that people are asking the question that policy poses:
The Detroit News: EVs are coming: Can Michigan's power grid hold up?
Behind a paywall, as that's how Detroit News rolls these days. But the answer at first glance would be no.
We haven't built a new power plant in Michigan in decades and a few windmills aren't going to cut it.
Going to all-electric vehicles sounds nice until you realize there is insufficient electricity generating capacity and infrastructure to meet the demand from such a fleet of electric powered vehicles.
Indeed as noted in an op-ed article not behind a paywall, the answer is no. Especially as Michigan under Dem Governor Granholm denied the permit to build a 600 Megawatt coal plant and there has been no further serious power generation plant built in Michigan since.
We simply don't have the generating capacity nor the infrastructure to support an all-electric vehicle fleet. Meanwhile the supporters of vehicle electrification are in general the same people preventing new generating capacity from being built.
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You might consider that the left might want to keep you home by making it impossible to have a personal vehicle. Maybe public transit, and forcing to move into the city where they can control you better?
I did an extensive post on that last year. The ENTIRE infrastructure in the US will not support a massive influx of EVs...There isn't enough power in the entire system, much less lines to neighborhoods to actually make it work.
Howard Brewi beat me to it.
Howard Brewi: Yep, the limited range and lack of ability to charge them effectively is likely a feature for the left rather than a bug.
Old NFO: Yep, you were right then, and it hasn't changed now, just the enviro progressives with their magical thinking no matter the reality.
Weetabix: Yep, he got that one right.
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