Melissa Steele's article, "Public hearing on zero-emission cars draws crowd" devoted the first third of the space to some pro-electric vehicle comments and the rest of the space to anti-EV comments. Most were biased and based on misinformation or no information. Space limitations prevent me from full discussion of these comments.
Where will the electricity come from? My supplier is Delaware Electric Cooperative, and with each monthly bill is a slick paper insert called Delaware Living. The April issue had, on the back page, a large paragraph titled "Solar farm provides clean energy to members." The listing of solar capacity, and future plans, in that paragraph is massive. Am I the only one in this area that reads these things?
Oh, an EV costs at least $60,000! I did a two-minute internet search on my cheap dollar store smartphone. There were four EVs at $30,000 or less. This does not include the Vinfast VF-5 (from communist Vietnam). A sale recently took place at a $23,000 price and got 3,000 orders in nine hours. Just wait for imports from China!
To the other questions and issues, I will give shorter answers. A commercial lithium battery recycling company is now up and running. Worst-case grid problems are happening in states other than California and are not the fault of just the EV recharging needs. The Gov. Newsom request was because an extreme heat storm dramatically raised the air-conditioning load demand. A while back there were very big problems in Texas and they were due to weather and mismanagement, not EVs. The PJM report talked about fossil fuel generators. I looked at parts of that report and did not find any accounting for new planned solar electricity. I looked but cannot say for sure that maybe DEC is not part of the PJM network and thus DEC maybe is not in any trouble.
Steele quoted Larry Mayo's sweeping absolute declaration about who can or cannot regulate something. My reaction to this is to say that years ago I read a 794-page book titled "Global Business Regulation," by Braithwaite and Drahos. My general impression (I did not actually count the list in the index) was that at least half of all business regulation was actually controlled by non-government organizations. Ultimately, a string of court cases up to SCOTUS – not a lawmaker, or people like Mayo – may decide these things.
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