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US is eroding (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

People really said that electric vehicles were too much strain on the grid? All I ever heard em say was that they're pointless.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Nope, it really is something anti-BEV folks say. "We can't just all switch to electric cars, we couldn't possibly charge too many simultanously."

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    which is bullshit, of course. we couldn't possibly all fill up with gasoline at the same time, either.

    and many would be charging cars overnight at home on ordinary 220-240v, when electric demand is lowest. you can't fill up a gas tank at home.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No, people would be charging their cars when they come back from work. And that is also the time where energy demand already is at it's highest. If everyone were to drive a BEV it'd be a lie to say that this wouldn't have an impact on the grid.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yea our grid actually cannot yet handle having every vehicle be an EV. But it also cannot handle data centers either. There's a great video on this for anybody interested that also has some commentary on the effect on green house gasses, backed by nothing but statistical information. I'm not trying to be pessimistic, just realistic. If we want more electric vehicles on the road, we need to keep building renewable sources of electricity everywhere we can. Most EVs consume far more power than a household does every year! We already built all the infrastructure for ICE cars decades ago, it's only logical some infrastructure needs to be built to support EVs! It's not a bad thing, it's just the way forward.

    https://youtu.be/k8CnlL8I4HE?is=ciAd2OKb5esv4mUz

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I'm not at all on these people's side, but to be completely fair, you're right, many would be charging their cars overnight, so at the same time. If many do this, electric demand at night would shoot up dramatically.

    I don't know if grids will be able to handle this (varies by country surely), but it definitely has an impact.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It is a real problem if everyone switched at once, which isn't realistic. Even with a gradual approach, at some point residential areas will require upgraded supply lines if every house has 1 or 2 240v chargers. The upgrade cost will probably start becoming an issue in roughly a decade, unless something drastic changes with power supply.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Think it depends where you live. Here in Alberta after having switched fully to electric every single human (not a exaggeration) has told me we can't all switch cause the grid can't handle it. Not sure why they continue to keep telling me that cause I really don't care if people switch or not, I just wanted to switch to become more sustainable for retirement.

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