US Infrastructure is Nowhere Near Ready for EV timeline of Biden's Teleprompter Controllers

US Infrastructure is Nowhere Near Ready for EV timeline of Biden's Teleprompter Controllers

By Paul Homewood

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/us-infrast...

 

U.S. policymakers are going all-in on electric vehicles (EVs), but the supporting infrastructures (electricity generation, grid expansion/augmentation, charging stations, etc., will require vast upgrades to be ready for the giant changeover. 

 

Recently, Biden’s teleprompter controllers announced a goal of increasing U.S. EV production to 50 percent of the U.S. annual sales by 2030, just 8 years from now.

It’s a hugely aggressive goal, requiring trillion dollar investments, while interest rates are increasing, and an out-of-control, manipulated CPI inflation rate of 8.6%, which likely will further increase; the real, not-manipulated CPI is increasing at more than 12%

It takes about $2.5 billion, and about 4 years (siting, land acquisition, permitting, plant design, build the plant, get to full production) to have in operation one Tesla plant that produces 500,000 EVs/year; higher inflation rates, higher interest rates, higher energy prices, higher materials prices, higher prices of scarce rare-earth materials, and continuing supply chain disruptions will play havoc with budgets, schedules and EV production 

In addition, increased mining in various parts of the world, and increased other efforts are required to produce the battery packs, plus the thousands of other parts, made with fossil fuels, and with embedded fossil fuels, to assemble the EVs

The Biden teleprompter controllers would need about 18 of such plants, plus the increased mining, etc., to have a US sales level of 9 million EVs/y by 2030, assuming US annual sales are 18 million cars in 2030. 

NOTE: This fantasy goal is similar to the off-the-charts extreme goal of 30,000 MW of offshore wind turbines by 2030; existing capacity of US offshore wind turbines is about 50 MW. The Biden fools adding 30,000 MW of very expensive offshore wind, would be donating a financial bonanza to Europe, because it would make oodles of money, plus it would permanently saddle the US, a trade competitor, with much higher energy costs, in addition to the enormous ANNUAL costs of defending Europe.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/biden-30-000-mw-of-off...

 

Current EV production is just 3-4 percent t of U.S. annual sales. The automotive sector and its supporting infrastructures would need a massive transformation to reach a more realistic 10 percent.

 

We would need hundreds of thousands of new charging stations, each with multiple outlets.

We would need more electricity generation and much, much less expensive ways to store it in batteries (not yet invented) and much more enhanced electricity distribution systems

 

And though Biden’s grossly incompetent posse of clowns is providing $3.1 billion in grants to seed the charging station process, the private sector will need to step up in a major way.  

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3502897-us-infrastructure-is...

 

First thing to state, is the author is clearly lobbying for EVs, with silly statements, such as:

 

“In 2021, EV and hybrid sales nearly doubled. As younger, more green-conscious buyers arrive in the market, that’s only bound to accelerate. “

 

I doubt whether many young drivers would be able to afford to make the payments on a five-year bank loan at 5%/y, to finance an EV, with a total cost of about $50,000 to $60,000 (AWD, long range, no extras, including sales tax, documentation, dealer prep/delivery, plus home charger).
The delivery of a Tesla, with adequate range during New England winters, takes up to 8 months, at present.

 

Or whether the vast majority of young drivers are quite as green as he imagines.

There is a world of difference between issuing a feel-good press release, and what cars people will decide to buy to suit their needs. After all, people have been buying cars to suit their needs for over 100 years. THEY are the experts.

 

It will not be possible to bribe them with hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies, while the U.S. debt is galloping from $30-plus TRILLION to $40 TRILLION by 2030

 

Today, America has about 145,000 gas stations. Yet peddling electricity is an entirely different animal.

It takes just five minutes to fill up a tank of a gasoline vehicle. Those five minutes give you 500 miles of range, enough to drive for 2 to 4 weeks.

 

Recharging a battery takes a minimum of 45 minutes

 

To match the 500 miles, an EV would need to be recharged at least three times, making a total charging time of at least 1 hour and 15 minutes, longer in winter.

 

Even allowing for some cars being charged at home, we are looking at 1 million EV charging stations, each with 5 to 10 chargers

 

At, say, $1 million each, we are looking at an investment of $1 trillion.

 

Most of this will have to come from private capital.

 

It is certain, Congress will never agree to pay more than the token amounts already pledged.

 

But here is the dilemma. No business is going to lay out this sort of capital, and then have it sit more or less idle for years, waiting for EV demand to pick up.

 

Equally, drivers are not going to buy EVs until the charging infrastructure is in place.

 

It is not possible to ban gasoline cars in the US, because the Federal Government does not have the constitutional power; the States may have that power.

 

In all, it would appear the EV target of Biden’s teleprompter controllers is just hot air, just another example of their lack of critical thinking regarding the reality of ordinary people’s lives.

 

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Comment by Willem Post on June 15, 2022 at 6:49am

The deranged EU bureaucrats in Brussels had been drinking the UN KOOL-AID, and were eagerly dancing to the UN climate tunes, and telling member countries not to sign long-term gas supply contracts with Russia, because it looked bad regarding fighting global warming.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-plot-is-thickening...

I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP; JUST GOOGLE.

As a result, EU members had to buy gas on the SPOT market, which went through the roof, because Russia supplies gas only to customers with long term contracts, AS DO ALL OTHER GAS SELLERS.

Normally, the SPOT market is just a very small fraction of the total gas market, but now, IN EUROPE, it had become the 800-lb gorilla in the room.

The EU bureaucrats were PISSED at Russia, because they had thought Russia would supply gas to the SPOT market, which it did not.

The EU bureaucrat scheme fell apart, much scrambling to shift the blame, egg-on-faces every where.

IDEOLOGY-DRIVEN EU bureaucrats had shot themselves in the foot, AGAIN

All that happened in 2021, well before Ukraine, with EU gas storage levels at record lows, and WIND AND SOLAR HAVING UNDERPERFORMED FOR MONTHS.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital...

THE LEVEL OF EU STUPIDITY AND LACK OF REAL-WORLD INSIGHT, AND WIND/SOLAR HUBRIS, ETC., WAS ASTOUNDING TO RATIONAL OBSERVERs

The UN nutcases, and EU bureaucrats, and other Climate Posses are holding hands and dancing in a circle of deranged, positive-feedback madness.

Comment by Lynn Oleum on June 12, 2022 at 2:54pm

As Skrable, Chabot and French wrote, only 12% of the CO2 in the atmosphere has come from burning fossil fuels, and only 30% of the increase since 1750 has come from burning fossil fuels. How do they know? By analysis of the carbon-14 content. Carbon-14 is produced only in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. It is radioactive, and decays with a 5,700 year half life. Fossil fuels contain no carbon-14. If burning fossil fuels were the major contributor to atmospheric CO2, you would expect the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere to be much less than it is.

Comment by Willem Post on June 12, 2022 at 5:58am

Germany is continuing to implement programs that reduce CO2, and is committing economic suicide while doing it.

Has anyone figured out what effect reducing “carbon emissions” would have on global temperature?

Yes, actually they have.

There is MAGICC: Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse‐​gas Induced Climate Change (MAGICC was developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research under funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 

Using MAGICC, you can evaluate the effects of various emission strategies on temperature change over time. The results are quite interesting.

See https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/12/going-to-zero/ 

For an analysis of the entire US going to net zero carbon emissions.
 
It works out to 0.1 degree C by 2050.

One-tenth of a degree, if the entire USA goes to net zero!

WTF?

Is there a way to sue Brussels for malfeasance?

Comment by Lynn Oleum on June 11, 2022 at 3:29pm

Going deeper than "critical thinking," in every corner of the energy sector, advocates for "green" (read (Russian and Chinese interests) completely fail to do any system engineering or quantification. It's all vague handwaving. Whether they can't do the analysis, or simply refuse to do it because they know it will contradict their agenda, I leave to each reader to decide.

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on June 10, 2022 at 11:00pm

This is Treason. Time to Admit Our Nation is Being Run by Domestic Terrorists and Traitors.
Stop trying to pretend this isn’t treason. It is. Stop trying to pretend this isn’t the purposeful, intentional destruction of America. It is.
https://rootforamerica.com/this-is-treason-time-to-admit-our-nation...

Comment by Kenneth Capron on June 10, 2022 at 10:30pm

Overheard at climate meeting today. Chargers are subsidized, but what about raising your electric circuit to 200 amp for $10,000 a pop.

 

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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