Other nations' experience reported for reconciling and managing electric vehicles and the grid; main articles behind a paywall, but this TOC:
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It is happening. Naysayers will risk this nation being left behind. It is REAL.
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Open access Editorial:
New demand, new challenges, and new opportunities: Making EVs and the grid work together [Guest Editorial]
Publisher: IEEE PDF
Abstract:Electric Vehicles (EVS) are not hype. They are here to stay as a critical component in the decarbonization of our transport. According to the International Energy Agency, from 2017 to 2022 alone, EV sales (battery and plug-in hybrids) went from 1 million to more than 10 million. In 2022, 14% of all new cars sold globally were electric. In China, where half of the world’s EVs reside, the share of EVs in total car sales reached 29% in 2022. In Europe, the second largest market, more than one in every five cars sold was electric. In the United States, the share of EVs in total car sales reached almost 8%. With more EVs, of course, comes more electricity demand. This means we also need to ensure that EVs and the grid, particularly the distribution grid, can work together.Published in: IEEE Power and Energy Magazine ( Volume: 21, Issue: 6, Nov.-Dec. 2023)
To read it all, open the pdf link above. While never even ever suggesting a reader use Sci-Hub, it possibly might bypass the paywall to let somebody secure an access if intent on reading one of the items. Maybe not.
The final abstract sentence, "This means we also need to ensure that EVs and the grid, particularly the distribution grid, can work together," means apart from high voltage transmission growth needs from wind farms or solar farms to consumers, the distribution grids are the local consumer service lines, power to the people.
". . . can work together " includes transmission needs, upgrading and routing, But the focus is on distribution of local power service to recognize and handle growing numbers of EVs. The folks who send you the power bills need to service growing needs, as the growth does and will happen. It takes intelligent professional planning and money.
From the item itself for a flavor, mid first page of three pages:
Furthermore, we cannot forget that
this new demand is different and super
techy, and therefore, capable of bring-
ing with it new opportunities. In fact,
there is flexibility to be exploited. Not
only EVs can be scheduled to charge at
desired times; modern EV chargers can
also receive external signals to limit the
power supply if needed (also known
as EV management or flexible/smart
charging). This means that distribution
companies can, for instance, use tariffs
to incentivize charging at certain times
or offer special connection agreements
when installing EV chargers. The op-
portunities do not end up there as that
very flexibility, when combined with
the ability of some EVs to do vehicle-
to-grid (V2G) (discharging their
batteries and injecting power to the
grid), can also be used to provide grid
services when managed by third par-
ties such as aggregators.
To understand how EV demand
looks and how we can realize poten-
tial opportunities, we need to test the
technologies involved, develop stan-
dards, come up with new platforms,
carry out different types of studies, etc.
Further, from a planning perspective,
we also need to estimate the future EV
uptake [...]
The crossover point will be when charging stations become more numerous than gas pumps, and the pump delay becomes greater. The want it now mentality of most in the nation would then grudgingly change allegiance.
Going back to the abstract, EV penetration of market data shows our nation lags others. I want my big pickup, my SUV, my Harley sounding like a Harley thinking may need to grow maturity. As the market grows. As charging stations come to outnumber filling stations. The timeline? Who knows. But it will be, like it, love it.