Will EVs Break the Grid?

 

Regardless of the fact that total numbers of EVs on the roads now is small and the near-impossibility that their total percentage will rise to overwhelming levels in anything less than a decade or two, it's still routine to see some climate change denier and EV alarmist insisting that "all these EVs will crash the grid", or some such poppycock.

This nonsense was raised in recent posts on (where else) Facebook, when someone posted a warning from Nelson Hydro asking that people try to restrict power use during the upcoming cold snap.  Never mind the request had to do with the cost of Nelson Hydro purchasing power from FortisBC, a few online experts immediately started worrying about how EVs were going to cause armageddon on our power grid.

Rather than spend more valuable time explaining this myself, I'm attaching a link to an article from Consumer Reports (not, so far as I'm aware, an agent of any government), that lays out why they do not feel there is any need for concern.

Can the Grid Handle EVs? Yes!

Even better, EVs could very well be used to stabilize the grid during peak hours.  More on that in a later post.