quote Originally posted by Raydar: Yeah, yeah, yeah. California can't even keep the lights on reliably, now. Wait until they add a couple of million charging stations to the mix. (From what I can gather, a charging station is about the same current loading as a clothes dryer.) Not only will they be sitting in the dark, they won't be able to leave. (Hmmm... maybe not such a bad idea at all.) Yeah... that'll work. I'm sure of it. They're boned.

I just saw where Ford plans to have some of these vehicles available in 2022 but will not fully ramp up production until 2023. About 20,000 vehicle purchase reservations have been received by Ford for the first production run.



Big History jumps to the Biden administration's INFRASTRUCTURE aspirations, called the "American Job Plan." This is part of how it was described by Vox reporter Ella Nilsen in a column that was published on March 31:

quote Invests $174 billion in the electric vehicle market, building out a network of 500,000 EV chargers on roads by 2030. The plan also calls for the electrification of 20 percent of the school bus fleet, and using federal procurement to electrify the entire federal fleet, including the US Postal Service. It also talks about giving consumers point of sale rebates and tax incentives to buy American-made electric vehicles, incorporating a plan from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

quote Invests $100 billion to modernize the nation’s electrical grid, and extend and expand the production and investment tax credits to accelerate clean energy jobs and projects in wind, solar, and other forms of renewable energy.

Big History segues to the official Whitehouse website and puts the magnifying glass on the American Jobs Plan FACT SHEET:

quote President Biden is calling on Congress to invest $100 billion to . . . Build a more resilient electric transmission system. Through investments in the grid, we can move cheaper, cleaner electricity to where it is needed most. This starts with the creation of a targeted investment tax credit that incentivizes the buildout of at least 20 gigawatts of high-voltage capacity power lines and mobilizes tens of billions in private capital off the sidelines – right away. In addition, President Biden’s plan will establish a new Grid Deployment Authority at the Department of Energy that allows for better leverage of existing rights-of-way – along roads and railways – and supports creative financing tools to spur additional high priority, high-voltage transmission lines.

All just aspirational (says Captain Obvious) until an infrastructure bill emerges from Congress, but it's clearly one of the Biden administration's top priorities.

Big History examines that remark "Yeah, yeah, yeah. California can't even keep the lights on reliably, now," (at the very top here) and asks whether it is realistic to "diss" the prospects for the F-150 Lightning and for more EVs in general, based on the electricity infrastructure as it stands today, instead of the larger and more robust electricity infrastructure that the American Jobs Plan is purposed to create?

It's not just about 2022 and 2023. It's about the years from 2024 and forwards.

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 05-23-2021).]