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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
The efficiency of a generating station is far superior to a car. Coal is still bad, but its use will inevitably decline.
In the end the battery powered cars will fix the grid, not destroy it. Excess night capacity can be used to charge cars, and energy from vehicles can be sold at a profit during daylight hours when there's a shortage. Your car will be programmed to save enough energy to get you where you need to go, but sell the excess stored energy at a profit.
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coal is declining fast - NG is killing it faster than any regulations
I also agree with your 2nd para. - but there could be problems in the near term.
and that brings us back to the MuskMoBile and Tesla - he is very smart to integrate PV panels and batteries into his industrial conglomerate; not to say that success is assured