For years, pundits, lobbyists, and fossil-fuel-aligned politicians warned that America’s electric grid was on the brink of collapse, not because of aging infrastructure or a lack of investment, but because electric vehicles were supposedly going to overwhelm it. “The grid can’t handle EVs,” they said. “It’s impossible. Too much demand. Too much strain.”

It was nonsense then, and it’s nonsense now.

False Warnings About EVs Overloading the Grid Hid a Battle Over Data-Center Profits



by UOMOD

5 comments

  1. Air conditioners are a much bigger grid challenge than EVs. But no one seems to mention that.

  2. Probably also why they are doing everything they can to keep oil and gas prices at rock bottom levels. They dont want EV’s to look more attractive. Could also be why they forced Musk to turn into a nazi to piss off the entire EV market customer base.

  3. EV with V2G chargers offer a very large virtual battery and something ICE cars have never offered nor capable of, a potential source of passive income. When the gas powered feeder plants freeze, your EV can make dollars reselling it’s electrical energy at profit back to the grid.

  4. It was nonsense and the push to add now for data centers proves it but you had to be a fool to believe it before. They should have been updating the grid and moving to alternative sources in the mix long ago. But energy is held hostage by the fossil fuel industry.

  5. If everyone charged off-peak, the current grid could reasonably handle the demand of converting all current light/commuter vehicles to electric. However, there would still be issues with running plants at higher capacity for longer durations and bottlenecks at interconnects.

    Far from impossible, but we still need to build more. The issue is that there is always a profit driven incentive to create scarcity and delay upgrades as much as the local PSC/Captured Regularly Apparatus will allow the corporations to get away with.

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