BimmerCast #9 – MINI E & 5 Series GT

Michael glad to hear you have a chance to experience the GT. I will be watching closely to see this rear line your talking about. The back half and top third of this development really is not doing much for me.

Great show guys as usual.

Just a counterpoint to the conclusion that our domestic infrastructure is not ready to accept everybody recharging electric cars. It is pretty well understood and accepted the the greater load for recharging vehicles will occur at night when the existing grid is significantly less loaded. So in fact the use of cars during the day, and recharging them at night fits very well with the limits of our current infrastructure.

Not trying to change your conclusions, but they’ll be more well founded if supported by good information.

Yes, well perhaps if everybody drove electric cars it would be a problem, but it would never be everybody, like tomorrow. Adoption would never be 100% and ramp up would always be gradual. Plenty of time to adjust to the change in demand and to add sources such as solar and wind. This is really the least of the problem with selling electric cars now compared to battery energy density and cost.