- 8 days
People really said that electric vehicles were too much strain on the grid? All I ever heard em say was that they’re pointless.
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.”
- relativestranger@feddit.nlEnglish8 days
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.
- 8 days
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.
- 8 days
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.
- psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
Those “it just offset the emissions to the powerplant” folks is probably eating their own word now.
- 8 days
Why? Just because the grid is more renewable than ever or something to do with datacenters?
- psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish8 days
A few years back there’s a huge pushback against EV because they’re saying the tailpipe emissions is only outsourced to the coal/gas plant, so no point doing that for cleaner air. Now datacenter is using more power than people can imagine, raking up the emission even more than EV. Now you have tailpipe emissions AND the emissions from the excessive power usage of slopcenter.
