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0 pointsWalterBright3y ago0 comments

> This is categorically false.

Yet California urged customers to not charge their EVs during peak hours because there isn't enough electricity available. And EVs are still only a tiny percentage of cars.

> hydro

is a doomed power source, because rivers are drying up, suitable sites are rare, and no new ones will be built because of environmental concerns. Existing ones get blown up.

https://www.nps.gov/olym/learn/nature/dam-removal.htm

BTW, a lot of PNW hydro power gets sold to California, which still has to tell people not to charge their EVs.

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mercutio23y ago

To be fair, Californians were asked not to charge between 4pm and 9pm. There’s plenty of capacity over night.

If we’d built car-to-grid infrastructure, EVs would be helping load shift, and they’re already not hurting in most cases, because we’re mostly not charging during peak consumption hours.

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