US will need to build 478 EV charging ports EVERY DAY for the next eight years at a cost of $35B to meet demand for 1.2M public ports by 2030 (And that’s not counting the 28M needed in homes!) And this doesn’t include the cost of increasing the power grid dramatically. California can’t keep the power on now during times of high demand.
America would have to install 30 million electronic vehicle charging ports by 2030 if half of drivers switch to EVs by the time California‘s ban on gas cars takes effect.
If half of all vehicles sold are zero-emission by 2030, the country would need 1.2 million public chargers and 28 million private chargers by that year – which a McKinsey report claims would cost more than $35 billion over eight years.
View Comments (2)
We are regulating ourselves back into the dark ages. California leading the way. EVs with dead batteries will liter the highways.
One positive of this mess is that California drivers will not have the range to reach Michigan, so we're safe from whatever brain disease they're suffering from. It's like California has decided to self-quarantine itself.