Hello, I hope you guys are ready to just enjoy good weather.

I hope it's great weather where I am.

I need to go play golf.

The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 877-97-973-7-425.

I actually want to begin this hour with a phone call from Ed, who's been waiting patiently.

Welcome to the program, Ed. How are you?

Hey, Eric, thank you. I'm a senior executive. I prefer not to say exactly what company I'm with.

In the electric power industry, primarily transmission, moving high voltage power across the United States.

We don't have the capacity within the country to support more than 18% electric vehicles.

You know, I'm glad you said this because I have heard this from a number of people,

enough that I believe it's true from people who are in the energy sector,

that we just flat out don't have enough people.

And, you know, I remember years ago now when I was in high school, I tried to argue this point to a teacher mind

that I just in my mind couldn't make it work if everyone flipped to electric vehicles.

And she's, oh, no, no, no, they'll build the capacity. But I don't see that we're building the capacity to make anything like this. We're looking at a trillion dollars or more of investment just to upgrade the high voltage grid to deal with it. But the problem is, is that people's lifestyles, they're going to come home at 5 o'clock. They're going to plug their cars in. The same time your air condition is on, same time you're cooking dinner and everything, and we're just going to brown out like crazy. I'm just trying to be helpful here with this information because I don't, you know, I have to be careful because I'm regulated by the FERC, you know, the federal government. So I don't want to, you know, say too much,

but we have a major problem once we reach over 15% electric vehicles.

Well, and, you know, just to play this out a little bit, we see this in some states during

heat waves where everyone turns on the air conditioner at the same time. Yeah. And we're already starting to see brownouts of those conditions. So, yeah, it, it has never made sense to me that if every American came home at night plugged in their electric vehicle at the same time on the power grid, and yet I guess they've envisioned a world where we're all going to have solar panels and wind. Hey, Ed, well, I got you here.

I don't want to put you on spot. If it's outside your wheelhouse, you can say so. That's fine.

But one of the things that I keep hearing as well is, well, you got all the excess production from

solar panels and windmills, but we don't have battery tech to be able to store that stuff.

The problem is we could go on for hours, I know you only have a minute.

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