EVs: Study shows Hydro-Quebec’s grid capacity to face test | Car News | Auto123

More and Heavier EVs: New Study Shows Hydro-Quebec Will Need to Increase Capacity

• It could overmatch even the best-equipped power company in Canada, a new study concludes.

- Simon Brassard, intern at the Chair in Transportation Transformation Université de Montréal/Polytechnique, speaking to Radio-Canada The study’s calculations show that, during a typical winter, the company would need a capacity of 3.65 GW to feed the total fleet of vehicles currently in use in Quebec, if they were all electric. What that means is that on high-demand days, the grid could be 10-percent short of the capacity needed to meet that demand.

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