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The transition to electric vehicles would put as much pressure on Australia’s struggling electricity grid as homes and apartments already do, experts have warned.

It comes as the House of Representatives continues its inquiry into impact of the wholesale uptake of electric vehicles, or EVs, including infrastructure and costs to motorists.

Race for 2030 Interim Director Associate Professor Roger Dargaville powering EVs in just one million households could cost as much as $10 billion in power inverters.

Representing the renewable energy advocacy group, Professor Dargaville told the inquiry to charge an EV at home users had to purchase a DV to AC converter device.

“That piece of infrastructure costs about $10,000 at the moment, and if you have a million vehicles sometime in the future trying to do this that’s $10 billion,” he said...

Asked about EVs feeding power back into the grid, Professor Dargaville admitted it was a “very complicated question” and that more research was needed about the benefit.

He said research about the impact of EVs on the entire grid was also needed but warned they would demand “as much electricity as the residential sector at the moment”...

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