Comments by "Engineering the weird guy" (@engineeringtheweirdguy2103) on "David Pakman Show" channel.

It wasn’t proven actually. Here’s the rub. The current energy grid for most places (some special cases are exempt like California and it’s energy grid used for political posturing instead of as an essential service) can support up to 60% of the population driving EV’S. But that’s only if we were to all magically get a new EV and start driving it today. but that’s never going to happen. Even if every auto maker on the planet was overnight re-tooled and re-trained and had established logistical trains so they all produced nothing but EV’s at the same peak rates they can produce ICE’s currently. It would still take 80 years to make enough EV’s to replace every single drivers car with electric vehicles…. Meanwhile the grid continues to expand. At an uninterrupted average rate of doubling grid capacity every 20 years. Because our energy demands have been doubling every 20 years… until recently. When we switched to LED lights. Low power computing hardware, energy saving devices such as newer refrigerators and washing machines. We’ve actually reduced our energy consumption over the last 10 years. But the grid infrastructure growth hasn’t slowed. So even by the most optimistically unrealistic hypothetical scenarios, we’d be well and truely able to hand the grid demand of 100% EV’s before we even reach 50%. The concept YOU’RE thinking about is the much more unrealistic, “if everyone on earth woke up with a new EV in their driveway tomorrow, the grid wouldn’t cope” - well no duh.
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The model 3 costs less than the average new car price in the US. And the model Y was the best selling car globally in 2023. So clearly not that expensive.
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@2010hyundaielantra when you’re getting the main competitor to BMW’s M3 I’d say it’s a steal. Same size, class, category, similar luxury features, performance and handling. If it were the same kind of car as a $20k Astra. I’d agree. But that’s not what you’re getting is it?
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