Yep. Our own fields.
Price of oil will make solar/electric cars more viable
Will it?
~35% of electric is produced from gas fired stations.
Yes, but if you charge your car during the night then wind has made up vast majority of generation during recent nights. During the day more gas is used when demand is higher.
Huh, didn't realise that.
Demand at 4am is about half of that at 7pm, a lot of days there is enough wind to provide that half. Of course it is not windy some days, and wasn't for much of January.
see https://www.smartgriddashboard.com/#all/wind
I know the grid is massively undersized for coping with a significant shift to EV - but if the majority of power at night can come from non gas sources (and the gas stations can be quickly turned on/off - not always a given) then yeah, that would help.
Again, if people charge at home then the grid can cope fine, as the car is not using more than ovens, tumble driers etc that are not typically in use at 4am. You don't need a fast charger during the night, you can charge in 2 or 3 hours, while you sleep. The ability of the grid to provide a load of rapid charging points on the road is an issue.
On an aside, if you wanted to flee Kyiv in recent days an electric car might not be ideal.
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until you can buy a 2nd hand electric car for 1000 euro, there will not be mass adoption
traditional mechanics can't fix them either so if it breaks down, they rob you for parts, updates and labor
a tesla can be 1200 a month and you don't even own the car, crazy
