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Originally Posted by Sasquatch
Whose coal is going offline? All of the US? Why wouldn't they just switch to NG whose price chart you posted shows a long term declining price trend.
Where did you come up with an 80% EV transition? Over what period of time and where?
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lol Because natty gas and coal both have emissions. It makes no sense to swap ICE vehicles for EV, only to charge them them using coal and nat gas. Defeats the whole point. The entire world is going EV, in one form or another. Some will be BEV. Others will be PHEV. But EV, charged by utility, will power the majority of the miles we drive.
Over 95% of vehicle trips are under 45km. And 60% are under 10km. Commutes, errands, events, etc. EV excels at this use case. Cross country road trips, which EV's suck at, are a very small percentage of vehicle usage en masse.
Even a PHEV with 60km battery range will power 80-90% of the miles it drives with electricity, due to this usage curve. Therefore they need to be powered by clean grids. Which Manitoba is blessed with, while others are not.