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Originally Posted by AgentTripleX
Ya... but the point of Tesla is to get away from oil dependency. If you're still using gas, you're still dependent.
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But if you use only electricity, you are going to be limited to how far you can travel.
That's what makes the concept of the Volt so interesting. A plug-in electric for every day, around town usage. A built-in gas engine to use for long trips when necessary.
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Originally Posted by Rich H
suggesting that electric cars will be recharged using today's power plant mix, or entirely solar/wind, is a pipe dream. The fact is that adding significant numbers of electric cars to the grid, regardless of the time of day, will force the addition of new power plants,
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Currently, using electricity overnight to charge the plug-in cars will just be using excess, unused capacity - the demand for electricity goes down significantly at night when businesses are shut down. There is plenty of extra for charging cars without building new power plants. Now, adding a few million plug-in electric car to the grid, and things may change down the road...