Hi Peter. Interesting thoughts, but do not forget to properly account for gigawatt-HOURS instead of "gigawatts", as these cars are charged at different moments. Please double check your calculations.
Hi Peter. Interesting thoughts, but do not forget to properly account for gigawatt-HOURS instead of "gigawatts", as these cars are charged at different moments. Please double check your calculations.
My calculations were as follows: 400 million cars X 100kw batteries = 40 000 000 000kw needed to charge them all up.
40 000 000 000 kilowatt = 40 000 gigawatt.
Did I miss anything?
Of course I'm not saying the 40 000 gigawatts would all be needed at the same time, so we wouldn't need 40 000 nuclear reactors to power them, but we would still need a lot of them.
Edit: I did conflate GWh with GW, the article is updated with the correct figures!
You have to differentiate GW (instantaneous power) and GWh (energy delivered in 1 hour). A 1 GW power plant generates 1 GWh per hour of operation and so on.
Your 400 million cars of 100kWh battery capacity charged once per week will require 40,000 GWh (40,000,000 MWh). A 1GW (1,000MW) power station running at 100% capacity factor will produce 168 GWh (168,000 MWh) in a week. So the absolute minimum generating capacity needed would be 238 x 1GW power stations (nuclear or otherwise).
An EV charging at home uses ~7kW (same as a reasonably high powered electric shower) so a 1GW power station can charge ~143,000 cars simultaneously and the 238 x 1GW power stations could charge 34 million simultaneously. It will take ~14 hours at 7kW to deliver 100KWh.
But as you and others have pointed out, they are not living in fantasy land. This is simple, basic physics meets economics, arithmetic and supply & demand. Politicians understand very well that they are doing the bidding of those to whom they report, the globalist cabal through a few benign sounding organisations like the UN, WHO and WEF etc. They know perfectly well that the numbers donтАЩt work but that doesnтАЩt matter in a controlled media world because what are you, the ordinary person, going to do about it? Nothing. Perhaps vote for the other guy who will be the same as the first guy.
LetтАЩs not leave open the door that politicians and government officials make and have made mistakes. None of this is a mistake, it is all 100% planned and intentional. It is about complete, irreversible power, wealth and subjugation of the common man by a tiny group of so called elites.
I've updated the article now on the numbers! I did conflate gwh with gw.
The correct calculation should be: 400 million cars X 100kwh car batteries = 40 000 000 000kwh needed = 40 000gwh. Assuming you charge once a week, it would draw 40 000gwh of electricity.
I also updated to give a better comparison with nuclear reactors, taking into account the Swedish Ringhals reactor which produces 27 000gwh per year. So the nuclear reactor couldn't even make in a year what will be needed in a week.
Point is, we still need loads of nuclear reactors if we are to transition to EVs!
Conflation of energy and power are all too common. As an entertaining aside some years ago I was at a home improvement exhibition. One of the exhibitors was Tesla showing off their Powerwall. I went to speak with the salesman and he kept saying тАЬkWтАЭ when he was referring to energy. I politely corrected him each time, and there were a lot of times. At first I thought it was just a misspeak or laziness but he grew tired of me correcting him and became less and less professional as the conversation went on. I eventually told him that I was politely correcting him but if this is the way Tesla talks to customers IтАЩd have been better telling you from the outset that youтАЩre an idiot. Happy days.
Hi Peter. Interesting thoughts, but do not forget to properly account for gigawatt-HOURS instead of "gigawatts", as these cars are charged at different moments. Please double check your calculations.
My calculations were as follows: 400 million cars X 100kw batteries = 40 000 000 000kw needed to charge them all up.
40 000 000 000 kilowatt = 40 000 gigawatt.
Did I miss anything?
Of course I'm not saying the 40 000 gigawatts would all be needed at the same time, so we wouldn't need 40 000 nuclear reactors to power them, but we would still need a lot of them.
Edit: I did conflate GWh with GW, the article is updated with the correct figures!
You have to differentiate GW (instantaneous power) and GWh (energy delivered in 1 hour). A 1 GW power plant generates 1 GWh per hour of operation and so on.
Your 400 million cars of 100kWh battery capacity charged once per week will require 40,000 GWh (40,000,000 MWh). A 1GW (1,000MW) power station running at 100% capacity factor will produce 168 GWh (168,000 MWh) in a week. So the absolute minimum generating capacity needed would be 238 x 1GW power stations (nuclear or otherwise).
An EV charging at home uses ~7kW (same as a reasonably high powered electric shower) so a 1GW power station can charge ~143,000 cars simultaneously and the 238 x 1GW power stations could charge 34 million simultaneously. It will take ~14 hours at 7kW to deliver 100KWh.
Yes, I realized that I did conflate GWh with GW - I updated the article to reflect that!
Thanks to Igor for pointing it out!
So we would need to build hundreds of nuclear power plants just to support all the electric cars.
The politicians pushing this stuff are living in fantasy land really.
But as you and others have pointed out, they are not living in fantasy land. This is simple, basic physics meets economics, arithmetic and supply & demand. Politicians understand very well that they are doing the bidding of those to whom they report, the globalist cabal through a few benign sounding organisations like the UN, WHO and WEF etc. They know perfectly well that the numbers donтАЩt work but that doesnтАЩt matter in a controlled media world because what are you, the ordinary person, going to do about it? Nothing. Perhaps vote for the other guy who will be the same as the first guy.
LetтАЩs not leave open the door that politicians and government officials make and have made mistakes. None of this is a mistake, it is all 100% planned and intentional. It is about complete, irreversible power, wealth and subjugation of the common man by a tiny group of so called elites.
Well, I'm still not sure whether its pure incompetence or deliberate malice. It's hard to tell.
But sure, people like Klaus Schwab are definitely not incompetent.
I've updated the article now on the numbers! I did conflate gwh with gw.
The correct calculation should be: 400 million cars X 100kwh car batteries = 40 000 000 000kwh needed = 40 000gwh. Assuming you charge once a week, it would draw 40 000gwh of electricity.
I also updated to give a better comparison with nuclear reactors, taking into account the Swedish Ringhals reactor which produces 27 000gwh per year. So the nuclear reactor couldn't even make in a year what will be needed in a week.
Point is, we still need loads of nuclear reactors if we are to transition to EVs!
Conflation of energy and power are all too common. As an entertaining aside some years ago I was at a home improvement exhibition. One of the exhibitors was Tesla showing off their Powerwall. I went to speak with the salesman and he kept saying тАЬkWтАЭ when he was referring to energy. I politely corrected him each time, and there were a lot of times. At first I thought it was just a misspeak or laziness but he grew tired of me correcting him and became less and less professional as the conversation went on. I eventually told him that I was politely correcting him but if this is the way Tesla talks to customers IтАЩd have been better telling you from the outset that youтАЩre an idiot. Happy days.
I just updated the article as well to reflect kwh and gwh and a better comparison on how much nuclear reactors produce!