Quote Originally Posted by Antipodean View Post
Not just charging stations, in addition the widespread adoption of EV's in a country like NZ would quickly outstrip the electrical grid's ability to provide. A rapid increase in electrical generation required at short notice would currently unlikely to be able to be filled with non-renewable sources. An ironic scenario.
Yes the irony isn't lost on me although there's a fair bit of solar and wind generation capacity that could be brought to bear reasonably quickly if gentailers thought the demand growth merited the capex. How the grid itself would handle the extra demand, that's another good question. A transformer blew up in our quiet suburban street the other day. Blew up like a bomb blast, thought we were living in Bagdad there for a minute lol. Wonder if some of my wealthy neighbors have already bought EV's and already stressing the system ?