This should be standard reading for everyone. We are being lied to by Big Oil and the fossil fuels industries. It’s time the consumers learn the truth. https://www.faircharge.co.uk/little-book-of-ev-myths
Archive for the ‘Grid’ Category:
2024-03-23 Three Myths About Renewable Energy And The Grid, Debunked
This is a great article by Amory Lovins debunking the myth that the grid requires “base load” – thermal power plants running to back up intermittent renewables. https://e360.yale.edu/features/three-myths-about-renewable-energy-and-the-grid-debunked
2024-03-21 EVs Enable The Global Decarbonization With V2G – Another Myth Debunked
Another myth debunked. This Electric Viking YouTube video under 10 minutes. “Quote from video starting at about the 8:06. “Now, here is what Climate Energy Finance said about this study. Batteries on wheels – electric vehicles – should be viewed as one of the most important enablers of the full decarbonization of the global energy
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2024-03-20 Claims By House Committee Are Dubious
This is claiming that the grid will be overloaded, but that claim is contradicted by the latest figures that show the grid has use 1% **less** electricity. The following URL claims that the grid will not be able to handle the growing load. This would be true *if* the grid was the only source of
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2024-03-20 EV Myth Debunked, Buried
There is the constant criticism fueled(!) by the Big Oil and fossil fuels industries that EVs – electric vehicles – are going to overload the grid. But this myth has been proven false by the latest statistics. The amount of electricity on the grid went down 1% according to the figures from the EIA. Furthermore,
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2024-03-12 Keeping The Grid In Balance
At the end he said “… keeping the grid in balance with millions of tons of spinning inertia.” Well, this is now being simulated by the electronics in the battery energy storage systems and other electronics. It’s called VMM – virtual machine mode. Soon, there will be very few thermal power plants left after all
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2024-02-07 Myth: EVs will Crash The Grid – Rosie 1 Min. Short
Rosie Barnes *debunks* the myth that Electric Vehicles will crash the grid – she shows that EVs will charge during the daytime and power the grid during the dark. 1 min. YouTube video.
2024-01-03 Elon Tells About Powering The US With A 100 Mile Square Solar Farm
Elon Musk talks about generating enough power from a solar farm 100 miles by 100 miles, plus batteries to power during darkness. https://youtube.com/shorts/IuYtaThlpcQ?si=ElLtxnwUutVRbF_O
2023-12-29 Solar Canopies Serve Three Purposes: Charging, Generation And Shade
I like getting in a car that’s not roasting hot. One thing the companies and organizations are doing is installing solar canopies in parking lots. It’s what Tesla did in the lot over the row of superchargers at Gigafactory Texas. And those canopies give cars shade. There are millions of acres / ares of parking
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