Electric Vehicles
What the EV transition costs the grid
Total electricity demand rises modestly. Peak demand is the problem, and it is almost entirely a question of when people plug in.
Topic
grid
Every Muskeology article tagged grid — 5 pieces across 2 sections.
Energy
Transmission is the bottleneck nobody photographs
A great deal of clean generation is built, connected late, and curtailed — because the wires to move it do not exist.
Electric Vehicles
Vehicle-to-grid: the idea that keeps not arriving
A parked fleet of electric cars is an enormous distributed battery, and every attempt to use it runs into the same obstacles.
Electric Vehicles
Are EVs actually cleaner? The lifecycle answer
Manufacturing emissions are higher, operating emissions are lower, and the crossover point depends on where you plug it in.
Energy
Why grid storage is the hard part
Generating clean electricity is largely solved economically. Having it available at three in the morning in February is not.