There are 300 million cars in the USA 2012
According to the US Bureau of Transit Statistics for 2004 there are 243,023,485 registered passenger vehicles in the US. Out of these roughly 243 million vehicles, 136,430,651 (56.13%) were classified as cars, while 91,845,327 (37.79%) were classified as “Other 2 axle, 4 tire vehicles,” presumably SUVs and pick-up trucks. Yet another 6,161,028 (2.53%) were classified as vehicles with 2 axles and 6 tires and 2,010,335 (0.82%) were classified as “Truck, combination.” There were approximately 5,780,870 motorcycles in the US in 2004, which accounts for 2.37% of all registered passenger vehicles.
http://www.howmanyarethere.org/how-many-cars-are-there-in-the-usa-2012/
QUESTION:
If 33% ( 80 Million plus ) of the registered passenger vehicles ( 243,023,485 ) had to be RECHARGED 1 to 2 times per day HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY would be needed and WHERE would it come from?
QUESTION:
If 33% ( 80 Million plus ) of the registered passenger vehicles ( 243,023,485 ) had to be RECHARGED 1 to 2 times per day HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY would be needed and WHERE would it come from?
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good questions.
for the next three years anyhow, its pretty much baked into the regulatory process that the growth in electrical power will come mostly from solar and wind. a lot of coal plants will be transferred over to natural gas.
I think this is a rather stupid way to go.
To get the big numbers required for additional cars they’d need more portable nuclear power plants and to drop the prices of these plants they’d need to shift them over to thorium from uranium and to lftr designs from light water reactor designs.