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BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

We're (the world) is currently massively back ordered on transformers by many years and no one is ramping up production. Let alone the rest of the infrastructure, or what people in apartments and others with no garages are set to do. Were too far out to solve those problems. Even 20 years out.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe, but there’s a lot more chance to solve it 20 years out

    More importantly, generating and transmitting more power is not the only option. It is for ai since a datacenter needs huge power continuously. However EVs need much smaller amounts of power intermittently. If I plug in overnight, I don’t care when it charges or how fast as long as it’s done by morning. Not everyone does that at the same time, and we ought to be able to create a “smart” solution to coordinate this and minimize the impact

    EV potentially could coordinate with the grid so we don’t need much or any additional power but just use it at different times

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    You still have to look at the millions of people with no garages, that park on streets and apartment parking lots, and who won't have means to charge outside of going and charging at fast charge stations away from where they live. These will all take massive amounts of high current power at peak times, not overnight. The people in their single family houses with their double car garages won't be an issue for overnight charging. It will be an issue for all the others. Imagine places like Kansas city or Chicago or LA.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Fast chargers aren’t the only option

    • Tesla already has fast chargers with megapack, and with solar. There are fast chargers that don’t impact the grid much
    • we definitely need to build out destination chargers. Charging at work is no different from at home, except for when. And build out of solar can make peak energy available just when needed
    • there are proposed answers such as streetlight chargers

    Obviously we don’t have an answer yet, haven’t built out the infrastructure, but we do have options

    Imagine places like Kansas city or Chicago or LA.

    I’m imagining park and ride stations with fairly slow charging. People in the suburbs can leave their car on a slow charger all day and take a train into the city.

    • My home charger is 50a which is too fast for this.
    • My work has 30a chargers and most people take turns for half a day
    • so we’re talking 15-20a, or again, something smart enough to spread the load
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