{"id":387242,"date":"2020-12-02T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387242"},"modified":"2020-12-02T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:43:04","slug":"electric-cars-will-double-global-electricity-demand-says-tesla-ceo-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electric-cars-will-double-global-electricity-demand-says-tesla-ceo-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric cars will double global electricity demand, says Tesla CEO Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the world&#8217;s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need to expand nuclear, solar, geothermal and wind energy generating sources. <\/p>\n<p>Increasing the availability of sustainable energy is a major challenge as cars move from combustion engines to battery-driven electric motors, a shift which will take two decades, Musk said in a talk hosted by Berlin-based publisher Axel Springer. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will take another 20 years for cars to be fully electric. It is like with phones, you cannot replace them all at once,&#8221; Musk said in a talk streamed on the Bild.de web site, adding that around 5% of vehicles are replaced every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the world&#8217;s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need to expand nuclear, solar, geothermal and wind energy generating sources. Increasing the availability of sustainable energy is a major challenge as cars move from combustion engines to battery-driven electric motors, a shift which will take two decades, Musk said in a talk hosted by Berlin-based publisher Axel Springer. &#8220;It will take another 20 years for cars to be fully electric. It is like with phones, you cannot replace them all at once,&#8221; Musk said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}