The definitive EV thread. No spin. No BS., page-769

To dive deeper, one only has to look at the current AEMO shortfalls in winter due to 40% less rooftop solar amongst others, and then using a calculation of 50% BEV saturation and its need for kW's every day on average. Without using EV trucks etc, nor population growth, thats a lot of extra electrons Australia must find and accelerate through the aluminium / copper grid.

21.2M registered cars in Australia, 12,000km average per year travelled, 20kWH/100km average BEV usage. Over 12,000km thats 2,400kW a year. Thats a total of 21.2M X 2,400kW = 50,880,000,000kWh of additional generation per year just to drive BEVs at 50% market / on road saturation without trucks / mining / F150 lightening's etc.

50.8TWh per year!

NSW currently uses 12,000MW demand average, which is 288,000MWh per day. Or 105TWh per year.

So to keep 50% of cars running as BEVs in Australia, they will draw over 50% of NSW's current demand.

BoBo still cant tell us how far behind his wind mills and PV panels are in the 22,000 panels a day rollout to meet 82% by 2030...