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Can The U.S. Power Grid Handle The EV Boom?

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The EV revolution could put a major strain on the nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on fossil fuels. To upgrade the grid to meet growing electricity demand, the U.S. needs to build a massive amount of new transmission and distribution lines to connect new renewable energy resources to population centers. But there are major regulatory hurdles to grid infrastructure buildout, and the government is not investing near the amount that analysts say the nation needs in order to meet its electrification targets.

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00:00 – Introduction
02:42 — Increasing electricity demand
05:56 — Grid needs
09:33 — Challenges faced
12:19 — Future

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  1. @Dulltableaux

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Satanic agenda

  2. @erich84502a

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Unplug your Tesla

  3. @oakspines7171

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    With this electrification and when massive problems happen, just cast blame on not enough spending.

  4. @lockitdownduck4033

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Nope, only idiots and leftists believe so.

  5. @CherokezPittman

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Great video on renewable energy! If you're into outdoor camping or value family time, I highly recommend the Segway Portable PowerStation Cube Series. With its massive capacity, armor design, and super fast recharging, it's perfect for powering your devices and appliances during extended periods outdoors. Plus, its waterproof technology and uninterrupted power supply make it reliable in any adventure. Check it out!

  6. @dan32one44

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    You bias corrupt politicians you won’t be able to get rid of petroleum EV use oil for moving parts there is a reason why petroleum comes from earth 🌎

  7. @woodsnwater7929

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    I work in power generation. Hydro, solar, and wind are a joke and take millions of acres to equal one power plant. Natural gas is the big player right now. Hydrogen cars are the real answer.

  8. @vuedochild-wx4rh

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    They know at the beginning, lithium car fires will be rare enough to not discourage sales, but eventually raise the prices of mortgages which usually require insurance to be included.

    Raise mortgages, more defaults, more properties to flip? They don't care if the power grid supports them? Its about insurance? You did not learn from Obama care?

  9. @eddyeroyal6024

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Sorry, if Reagan hasn’t stop this in the 1980s we,d been there by now so go for it.

  10. @dan32one44

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Fools it will never work you can’t fly planes ✈️ on just electric plus they promote solar but yet they cloud seeding to stop the sun ☀️ from shining Damm weasels…

  11. @andyp1031

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    No it can’t. But it’s not that big a deal because most people won’t buy them anyway.

  12. @DirtySheriffx

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    If you think about the whole thing, to electrify everything there will need to be a production out put never seen before in human history, just copper will need probably 30 times the amount that is currently produced globaly, that is for new evs, power lines and everything in between.
    And there are 30+ other materials that will need just as large a build out.
    Also remember that even on the 'greenest' power grids there are peaker plants that are used to cover renewable short falls which are the dirtiest form of power production when natural gas is not available.
    I am all for electric cars just on the health side with no exhaust fumes in the cities, but I'm not blind to the fact that places that build them on mass are not green powered and the materials used to build the cars are not clean to make, so to off set the carbon pollution in the making and powering of evs right now will probably take 10 or more years of driving.
    Then there are the growing number of ev fires, as more and more make it to the roads its only natural that the number of fires grows with that, and how toxic they are when they burn, with all the chemicals in the batteries both the air around the fire and the water after are left contaminated, plus fire departments not knowing how to put out fires on every different type of ev.
    Evs and green power grids might just be tech that is being widely used before they were ready and what we are seeing is the effect, build all the solar and wind you want, they won't help on a windless night, it will take a massive break through before battery tech is good enough to power entire countries over that windless night, because remember that alot of countries including the US are not building much in the way of nuclear, so when there is no wind or sun then on go the gas and coal power plants.

  13. @auzzie22314

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Why not a segment on "grid of Grids" concept where autonomous city block scale DC microgrids link energy efficient DC buildings (greatly reduced energy use) and EV's not only solve many of the problems outlined by the climate lobby but also go a long way in mitigating the national security vulnerabilities of the existing grid, By the way, why was there no mention in this piece of retrofitting the existing transmission lines with greater capacity conduits?

  14. @DrTofutybeast

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Totally lame review… Out to lunch

  15. @bobbobbington3615

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    EV sales are crumbling.

  16. @wickedone5082

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    WHAT EV BOOM? 😂😂

  17. @johngrant7097

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Why not nuclear

  18. @J.D.Ruybal

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    Sounds like corporate fearmongering. This video is encouraging corporate control of the energy grid…The energy itself; where the taxpaying working class including the downtrodden pay for corporate profiteering! The current system is designed for for profit oligopolies. This corporate video is preparing us–the people–for the cost of upgrades and infrastructure. This is All about ensuring corporate profiteering. Think what it would mean if every home, every rooftop, every parking lot and every window was its own generating station where the energy would be shared all around. It is time folks 'We' as a people, as a nation realize and reconsider and redesign the for profit energy system and work toward a more holistic and independent system. Let's 'Think' beyond privatizing and profiteering and maintaining the wealthy peoples lifestyle. After all this is 2023. Let's allow technology to advance us beyond the old system of capitalist consumption and evermore profit 'growth'. That is if We The People are brave enough to go against the plutocratic monarchy?

  19. @eLnochiCalee

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    California has a big electrical grid issue and pretty soon they will allow a water issue😂. And it's not because of climate change. The democrats are actually going to push this, which I do not know why.

  20. @garycmli

    December 18, 2023 at 12:56 am

    talking about decarbonisation targets but allowing new fossil fuel developments is quite contradictory…..

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