Using Electric Vehicles as Grid Storage: Another Green Fantasy

Using Electric Vehicles as Grid Storage: Another Green Fantasy
A worker with car batteries at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd, which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses, in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, on March 12, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Jonathan Lesser
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The push for electrification of the entire economy—electric cars and trucks, electric heat and hot water, and even electric stoves—is relentless. Various states, including California, New Jersey, and New York, to name just three, have enacted legislation and developed all-encompassing “plans” to put everything into an electrified basket.

Jonathan Lesser
Jonathan Lesser
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Jonathan Lesser is a senior fellow with the National Center for Energy Analytics, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute, and the president of Continental Economics. His report, “Green Energy and Economic Fabulism,” was published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
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