Currently we are told the power grid struggles to handle the power load demand during the summer due to air conditioners. Yet scientists claim this same power grid could handle an entire nation of EVs. How? What am I missing?
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Power plants have a hard time changing how much power they generate. They have to figure out how much power people will need, and then always produce that amount – even during hours when most people aren’t using any power. This means there is a lot of wasted power.
EVs are *very* helpful because they give a place for that extra power to go. EVs are charged with that power that would have been wasted.
I have a friend who manages power generation for plants in the Northeast. He is routinely frustrated by how much power is wasted to make sure there is enough during peak hours. He tells me all the time how he needs more people to buy EVs so he has a place to put all the excess power that goes down the drain.
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