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Comments     Threshold   By Keeir on 2/12/2010 11:32:08 AM ,
Rating: 2 While millions of californians can't plug in all at
the same time....  It appears todays minimum expected gap is
greater than 2 GW of power. Charging at 15 amps, 220V takes
roughly 3.3 kW of power.  Today at peak time, enough generator
resources exist in California to support 600,000 electric cars
all charging at the same time. Years till Californian purchase ~
1 million electric cars to make this a likely senario... at
least a decade.  Most concerns about the power grid settle on
local distrbution capabilites...  By porkpie on 2/12/2010
12:36:36 PM , Rating: 2 "Today at peak time, enough generator
resources exist in California to support 600,000 electric cars
all charging at the same time..."  Um, hello but TODAY is the
middle of winter. California's peak loads come during the summer
time.  What good is a car you can't charge for 3 months out of
the year, because Cali's grid