Transportation Electrification: Will We Be Ready?

A new PNNL report says the overall U.S. electricity system can provide power for up to 24 million electric vehicles over the next decade. However, cities could feel the squeeze if they don’t accelerate planning for large-scale electrification, especially trucks and commercial vehicles on interstate transportation routes. The study is the most comprehensive of its kind, integrating multiple variables not evaluated before, such as power generation constraints and large-scale and long-term EV charging strategies.

[joseylastborn]

Much of the electric grid is privately owned and for-profit. They argue that any efficiency agenda is unconstitutionally confiscatory of profits so arguing likewise electrifying is windfall profit and therefore morally hazardous to an extreme. Competing Technologies included not just General Motors embracing the third gas if you consider coal gas the first and natural gas the second and the renewable methane that they plan to smoke for semi trucks would be the third. It is engineered but natural versus the fract methane.

What we need however is energy delivery by phase change materials. Electrification is the prescription for impotence in competition with oxidizing fuels.

The solution has been obvious for decades and the technology should have improved far faster but it's always been adequate. Convert renewable energy into liquefied atmospheric gases, AKA engineered liquids. Do the planning for this at scale which means disrupting the entire shipping industry with Hyper Sonic yanked bidirectional immense capacity unbelievably low cost progress. For every billion tons of liquid nitrogen you accelerate 2 however many hundreds of miles per hour you do great service to the quality of life on Earth by bringing the energy from where it is easily and cheaply harvested to where it is needed something that Electric grid will never do.

[jeremyharris]

In the study that this video using for the information, 250 mile BEVs were used as part of the light duty vehicles mix. How many miles did each of the BEVs drive each day? And were they recharged fully each day? I have read the study paper and haven't foind this info. It is clearly spelled out for the medium duty vehicles.

Thank you.