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HDGristle's Avatar
https://insideevs.com/news/748170/tr...riff-china-cm/

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/tru...se-rivals-cars

How can Trump help lead the U.S. to become the leader in EV's?

What should be be doing here?

Focus isn't about trying to roll back mandates or whether you like EV's.
onawbtngr546's Avatar
The best thing that trump can do for EVs is to hand the task of being a world leader over to China.


They've copied enough from leon enough to make cars, and now rockets and soon microchips and AI. All they need is for trump to throw a wrench into the machine that is america (or rather, take out all the 'unnecessary' nuts and bolts holding the thing together) so that China can pass us up.
Jacuzzme's Avatar
The US can barely supply enough power to run what we’ve already got, let alone that plus millions of people plugging in cars every night. If EVs are to become legitimate competition to internal combustion engines somebody needs to start building nuclear power plants.
HDGristle's Avatar
If we want to be a leader in crypto mining and AI, those are also power intensive.

So if we scale for those we can scale for EV's, right?

Yes, more nuclear.
Devo's Avatar
  • Devo
  • 01-26-2025, 07:55 PM
EVs, good for city people, sheep can have them.

With no mandate, they are toast, and yes, nuclear reactors are the future.

I know a few folks who are Westinghouse employees, the tech is there and ready, they just got approval for an A300 in Alberta, Canada for one.
HDGristle's Avatar
I brought up the AP300 quite some time ago. You forgot the P.

Now how does that help EV's?
Devo's Avatar
  • Devo
  • 01-28-2025, 02:30 PM
I brought up the AP300 quite some time ago. You forgot the P.

Now how does that help EV's? Originally Posted by HDGristle
Aduh.



EVs don't run on farts.

Yet.
HDGristle's Avatar
Where would you put them and what would they replace?

We're talking smaller footprint but 300 MW. Do you see then replacing coal-fired or combined cycle?

If so, where so that they have the most impact to help grow EV adoption?
Devo's Avatar
  • Devo
  • 01-28-2025, 03:26 PM
Where would you put them and what would they replace?

We're talking smaller footprint but 300 MW. Do you see then replacing coal-fired or combined cycle?

If so, where so that they have the most impact to help grow EV adoption? Originally Posted by HDGristle
Rural, where there is NO EV charging infrastructure, further, replace the existing power plants with smaller more local "Electric Communities" where one plant, provides the needs for all the homes and businesses that a single plant can provide.

It wasn't the AP300 but another small reactor that would power about 10,000 homes, that's about the size of two of our small towns, you could see a few small towns running their own power system.

We actually have some in Allegheny County which buy the power from the grid, but have their own maintenance crews to maintain just their town, around the AK Valley, not sure, which particular towns.

Anything that reduces the need for fossil fuels, we need to get back to too cheap to meter, for EVs and a mostly electric country.

We will never entirely replace all fossil fueled vehicles.

I believe the one I read going to Alberta was for an industrial complex with high power needs.
HDGristle's Avatar
Electric communities... or microgrids?