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Article: Canada: BC s power grid could handle 2.5 million electric cars, study suggests.
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- November 4, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
There's enough under-used capacity in British Columbia's power grid to charge 2.5 million electric vehicles, almost equal to the number of vehicles on B.C. roads right now, a new study suggests.
The challenge won't be finding enough juice to recharge them, but when to do it and how to deal with changes in BC Hydro's revenues and government fuel taxes.
The study by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions says British Columbia's light-duty fleet - private cars, vans and pickup trucks - totals about 2.54 million vehicles.
Even if almost all of them were replaced by plug-in electric vehicles - which wouldn't happen for ...