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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (-1 children)

This is a pretend problem. When have EVs ever caused rolling brown outs?

Grid can't handle the current of all the cars charging at once? Charge them slower. Get a battery bank for your home to smooth out the demand curve. Throw banks of supercaps at fast charging stations. Fix the fucking grid as you go. Use battery banks on the grid to even out demand at any level. Hell, you can use the cars themselves as battery banks and bring back rooftop solar tax breaks

It's a fake problem, our grid and production do genuinely need work, but in practice EV adoption hasn't been a limiting factor at all

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (-1 children)

    Charge during non-peak hours. Demand on the grid fluctuates over the day, use it when it's not in use.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (-1 children)

    It also serves the purpose of a generator, and with solar you might be able to cut your grid draw to basically zero

    The fire risk is generally overstated, plus different battery tech, like sodium, are much less flammable. Weight and size are much less of an issue, so as adoption increases they're going to get much cheaper and longer lasting as production ramps up

    Not to mention it does meaningfully reduce load on the grid with increased adoption. Not everything needs to be financially min-maxed... If you've got the money, it's a good thing to invest in

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