No worries, then . . .

[Bruce Bostwick]

The biggest factor helping that is overnight charging, which draws  
power during off-peak hours when only the most efficient generators  
are online ..

On Jul 24, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

> Utilities: Grid can handle influx of electric cars
>
>
> Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma
> television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car?
>
> The nation's electric grid can handle a mass conversion to plug-in
> hybrid cars like this one, utility executives say.
>
> The answer is the car. But the electricity draw by plasma televisions
> is easing the minds of utility company executives across the nation
> as they plan for what is likely to be a conversion of much of the
> country's vehicle fleet from gasoline to electricity in the coming  
> years.
>
> Rechargeable cars, industry officials say, consume about four times
> the electricity as plasma TVs.
>
> But the industry already has dealt with increased electric demand
> from the millions of plasma TVs sold in recent years. Officials say
> that experience will help them deal with the vehicle fleet changeover.
>
> Full article:
> <
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/07/23/electriccars.grid.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
>>
>

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