But the recommendation that really sticks out is one suggesting Californians avoid charging their EVs, which doesn’t exactly sit well with CARB’s recent decision tofrom 2035 as part of legislation that also requires 68 percent of cars to be zero emissions by 2030, and 35 percent to meet the same criteria in 2026.
Living up to those ideals is only possible if the state’s drivers switch over to EVs in huge numbers, and that kind of shift is going to put a huge strain on the grid. We’re always hearing about the money being spentto ensure we’ll have somewhere to plug our future EVs in, but it sounds like an awful lot of money needs to be spent on the back-end technology to make sure those new charging sockets can actually supply the energy they promise.