Marc v E
Major Contributor
My first post in this immensely instructive, educative and eye-opening thread. I , actually would like to open a thread on energy production and invite the people here to it...
Let's take the example of a 1000 MW plant... From what I researched and this is an ignoramus speaking, about $7 Billions. 365/24 operations
Solar at current prices.. about $1,5 Billions... 365/???? operations. Power delivery will fluctuate immensely and that 1000 MW would be reached only at certain time of the day and even then... At night? Nothing. Zero output
Storage is a serious issue when it comes to solar. Storage carbon footprint is not trivial. Storage is expensive and its logistics monumental, at even a city block level. For EV.. It is a different issue. an EV is actually stored electricity vehicle
EV rely on that cheap power from , mostly ICE, since most plants on the planet and even in the USA are ICE-based be they coal or Diesel. I am asking the question in all honesty. How much power/energy to charge an average EV (No SUV please ) for say 50 miles/day? From there I could deduct how much solar would be required for my use case.
Peace.
European Union Energy Label
*/ The energy label informs about the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of passenger vehicles. Emissions are measured in grams per kilometer travelled.
www.tesla.com
The model 3 long range is a pretty good benchmark vehicle: 16 kwh/100 km, so 8 kwh/50 km. If you want real world numbers you could also cross check with what Bjorn Nydahl on youtube shows at the end of a car test. He maintains a sheet of all cars tested.
Edit: if you look at the column next to it you'll see the liter/100 km equivalent which shows a crazy efficiency. In fact if you'd burn all the oil required for ev's in a powerplant you'll use far less than what is burned by the same number of ICE cars. The reason is powerplants are far more efficient than a internal cumbustion engine. In short: even if everyone would take an ev and we'd still use oil to burn in powerplants for electricity, we'd save an enormous amount of oil compared to now. Crazy, right?
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