Average home consumes 1.25 kilowatts per hour, but a charging station consumes 350 kilowatts per hour.
A man charging his electric car explained how the charging station uses more kilowatts per hour than 280 homes.
“This is a 350 kilowatt station. I’m consuming roughly 137 kilowatts. It’ll fluctuate. Sometimes I can go up to the full 350. But to put this into perspective, an average home consumes 1.25 kilowatts per hour. 135 kilowatts per hour. It’s like the equivalent of 106 homes on the grid, just this one station,” the man said in a video uploaded to social media.
The Truth About Electric Cars. Each Individual Charging Station Is Using The Equivalent Power Of 280 Homes Every Hour ?
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“Now, if I was gonna get the full 350 kilowatts like these can supply, that would be the equivalent of 280 homes. Now think about all six chargers running at full capacity. That’s like 1,080 homes on the grid.”
“It’s things people don’t realize the amount of energy it takes to fast charge these batteries,” he continued. “It’s a huge amount of electricity. And now you understand why the electric companies can’t even supply that much power to one spot. It’s like think of 1600 homes and how much copper and wire that would take to supply that many houses.”
He pointed out that the Democrats’ ambition to phase out all gas vehicles for electric vehicles is not sustainable based on the amount of electricity required to charge them.
“They got to figure something out because to have every car in America on the grid, it’s going to be…I don’t even know what those numbers would be,” he said.
Even if this model was sustainable, there’s then the issue of waiting in line…
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