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Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson blamed for slow electric car sales (news.sky.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, Mr. Atkinsons stance is not really off. EVs are still in their infancies, and need to get out of puberty before they are really useful and affordable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Charging infrastructure is another huge bottle neck. I don’t have a charging station anywhere near my home, so even if I had an EV, I wouldn’t be able to charge it anywhere.

Then there’s also the grid. If everyone were to plug in their EVs in the afternoon, that would overload the grid beyond its capacity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In the US the grid can handle it just fine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Texas has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely! The biggest threat to grids are data centers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Source on that?

From what I've heard in the UK, the biggest threat to the grid is the move from older power stations around which the grid was built to newer, less geographically concentrated sources like wind and solar and the lack of transmission from the new sites.