EVs use regional power, including hydro, solar, and wind. A significant improvement over gasoline.
EVs charge mostly at night, so the balance out daytime A/C use to produce a more stable power draw.
EVs charge mostly at night, so the balance out daytime A/C use to produce a more stable power draw.
>>>EVs charge mostly at night
That is the use case today, when they make up a low part of the overall fleet... I doubt that will maintain as their percentages increase and people that do not have Salary 9-5 jobs start using EV's
https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/new-data-show-electri...
So the worst case EV's are better than the smallest, most efficient ICE subcompacts.
And you can flip the map on that post between 2009 and 2016 numbers. You can see things are getting cleaner. They're getting cleaner because renewables are out-competing dirty coal. Yes, most of it is gas displacing coal (gas is marginally cleaner), but there are cases of renewables/storage outcompeting gas in terms of price.
It's not a hidden agenda -- it's pure competitive economics.