Preparing for the Coming Wave of Electric Cars

[jpak]

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/podcast/2010/05/how-will-electric-cars-impact-the-grid

Electric vehicles are here. With almost every major car company developing a plug-in hybrid or all-electric model for the U.S. this year, the market looks poised for solid growth. But will utilities and consumers be able to handle the new challenges that electric vehicles pose to the grid?

The first wave of vehicles in the next couple of years won't be large enough to cause much trouble. The number of electric cars on the road in the U.S. currently is in the tens of thousands. But if Obama's goal of deploying 1 million electric cars by 2015 is achieved, it could have an impact on the distribution network in areas of the country with large numbers of plug-in cars.

“Most people agree that we have enough generation capacity to meet the first wave,” says Matt Nielsen, a senior researcher with GE. “But one of the key issues...is the local points of connection for these vehicles.”

Nielsen is leading a three-year collaboration between GE and Nissan to determine how and where electric vehicles will have the most impact. Nissan is releasing its all-electric Leaf in the U.S. this year, with plans to get 10,000 of them deployed in the next 18 months. It already has a waiting list of 100,000 potential buyers.

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[NNadir]

1. "By 2015." Um...that's nothing. California by law has had 10% ZEV on the road since 2003.

California legislators created the ZEV mandate back in 1990 after General Motors vowed to mass-produce its sporty EV1, a battery-powered two-seater. The mandate consisted of just a few sentences, stating that major manufacturers' California sales must include at least 2 percent ZEVs in the model years 1998 through 2000, 5 percent ZEVs in 2001 and 2002, and 10 percent ZEVs in 2003 and subsequent years. Increasing volume was supposed to drive improvements in the performance of electric drivetrains and slash their cost.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/california-to-rule-on-fate-of-evs

Apparently the State of California, not to make its 1990 soothsayers look like stupid ass denialist mystics declared the gasoline in Priuses to be zero emissions.

That is a surprise.

My favorite picture of Amory Lovins and the rest of the oil greenwashing anti-nukes:



By the way, how are all those huge wind to hydrogen plants you were telling us about working out. Norway off gasoline yet because of its work at Utsira?

No?

You know there's a nice Utsira post mortem in the scientific literature. Maybe I'll share it here after I'm done talking about the great "green" company that soothsaying Amory works for, Anglo-American.

[jpak]

2. Amory Lovins is walking through your town

Amory Livins walking down your street

Amory Lovins is walking across your lawn

Amory Lovins is on your stoop

Amory Lovins is knocking at your door....






BOO!

:rofl:

[diane in sf]

3. The Horror !!! Lovins !!!!! More frightening than a windspill !!!!!111!!!! Series!!!!11!!