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Electrical grid infrastructure is a critical part of our world even though most people don't give it much thought since mostly it works. It can get more attention when things go wrong like they did recently in the 2021 Texas Power Crisis. The grid is big and complicated and giant bureaucracies, regulatory landscape and infrastructure projects move slowly unlike the rapidly changing markets and the number of things relying on the grid for daily life. There's also ever expanding residential and commercial solar on both sides of the meter contributing positively but adding some particular challenges at the same time like the “Duck”. Ecological evangelists have been long working for mass EV adoption and finally it appears it is truly reaching terminal velocity and EV’s will soon be a substantial portion of transit vehicles of all classes especially automobiles.

Mass electric vehicle adoption has been projected for more than a decade; however, a few key elements have been missing until now. Advances in Li-ion battery technology have enabled greater vehicle range, efficiency and power. These performance improvements coupled with reductions in batteries and other electric vehicle sub-system costs has allowed vehicle architects to develop solutions that are superior to internal combustion alternatives in their respective vehicle classes.