 Manitoba Hydro plugs into electric vehicles With electric cars soon to hit the local market, Manitoba Hydro is planning for its role as the 'filling station' of the future.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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At current hydro rates, people can drive the new electric cars about to hit the Canadian market for the equivalent cost of 15 cents a litre, Page said. "That's certainly going to make that transition a little easier for customers," he said.
The sticker price for electric cars is still out of reach for many people. The Nissan Leaf, a medium-size hatchback that seats five adults, will retail for $38,395 to $40,995.
This is pretty exciting..
And do they tell the Leaf buyers that if they want any kind of reasonable charging time at all, they'll have to intall an expensive charging station, as doing it at 110V will take 16 hours or more?
I don't think people have thought this thru.
That's the equivalent of the power that will be generated from Hydro's new Wuskwatim dam, set to come on stream next year.
It assumes that tens of thousands of customers will be driving electric vehicles (EVs) by then.
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"For every 20-cent (per litre) increase at the pumps, half a billion dollars leaves this province," he said.
Manitoba is a great place to get this happening, that's probably why we're a test market for these things.
Do they have the juice if people actually take them up on their offer? I know Quebec, a hydro superpower, doesn't if people used electric cars at the rate the govt is promoting. There just isn't enough electricity being generated in US/Canada to support significant electric car use.
And do they tell the Leaf buyers that if they want any kind of reasonable charging time at all, they'll have to intall an expensive charging station, as doing it at 110V will take 16 hours or more?
I don't think people have thought this thru.
Must be why we have so many hydro projects in the works for Qu�bec... mind you, it takes so long to construct and get one up and running.
Do they have the juice if people actually take them up on their offer? I know Quebec, a hydro superpower, doesn't if people used electric cars at the rate the govt is promoting. There just isn't enough electricity being generated in US/Canada to support significant electric car use.
And do they tell the Leaf buyers that if they want any kind of reasonable charging time at all, they'll have to intall an expensive charging station, as doing it at 110V will take 16 hours or more?
I don't think people have thought this thru.
Must be why we have so many hydro projects in the works for Qu�bec... mind you, it takes so long to construct and get one up and running.
For the US and Canada to have significant numbers of electric cars on the road they're going to have to way ramp up electricity production. The only feasible "clean" way to do that is nuclear. Coal fired sure isn't clean, and natural gas, might as well just run the cars on it directly.
Or we can continue to flap our gums with excuses until the Chinese lock up the patents and the whole market. The Yanks aren't gonna do shit, half of them are outright hostile to anything but cutting the gas tax and falling another 40 years behind.