Well yes and no. Check out https://skepticalscience.com/grid-ev-ready.html, the guy talks out of both sides of his mouth. The capability is there, Stanberry said. The question is how do you get there. Well, if we haven't gotten there, then obviously the capability isn't actually there. He talks about cars sitting around unused 20 hours of the day, which may be true, but commercial vehicles like semis do not, and have to recycle quickly. They cannot sit for 20 hours to recharge, and have their recharging times staggered to fit the requirements of the power grid.
The power grid of 2020 may not be the one of 2000, but it is more similar than you imagine. Increasingly tight environmental standards are making it more and more difficult to build out more power generation and distribution, and solar and wind just aren't reliable 24/7. Solar panels at your residence can certainly help to recharge your personal vehicle, but aren't practical to quickly recharge a fleet of commercial semis or cars. Some of the Tesla chargers are rated at 1 MEGAWATT. Start adding up a significant number of megawatts and tell me again with a straight face that we have to grid capacity to support that.
As the other poster mentioned, you only have to look at situations in Texas and California last year where there were rolling blackouts due to demand exceeding supply, and residents being told to NOT charge their EVs, to know that this is NOT ready for prime time.
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