Jim Dunmyer wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 > Another consideration,  and one that I don't often see addressed 
 > with regard to electric vehicles,  is the power grid.  I can't 
 > remember where it was exactly,  but somewhere in my collection of 
 > Analog magazines there's an article that looked at that issue and 
 > came to the conclusion that in order to move to electric vehicles in 
 > this country we'd need to *double* the power grid,  in order to 
 > support current levels of usage.
 JD> That is something that's not often addressed by the electric
 JD> car evangelists. 
Yep!  I see mention of electric cars from time to time,  and every time I 
bring up this point no one has any answer for it...
 JD> The [daytime] charging stations could have flywheels or huge 
 JD> batteries so they'd draw most of their power during off-peak 
 JD> times, and home chargers could have timers, but you can only go 
 JD> so far.
 JD> Most folks don't think about how much energy can be easily 
 JD> stored/transported in a single tank of petroleum-based fuel.
 JD> :-)
Hey,  it gets *me* around!  :-)
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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