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smallproton t1_ixqa1j6 wrote

Always the same stupid argument: What if everybody went EV today? The poor grid....

IF COURSE today's grid is not ready, but 2035 is 12 years from now. And this transition gonna be adiabatic enough that the grid in 2035 will cope.

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VikingBorealis t1_ixraynm wrote

It's not like everyone or even most will charge high speed anyway.

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VoraciousTrees t1_ixr2g5l wrote

better start upgrading the transformers and lines now.

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pimpbot666 t1_ixr6m4c wrote

Yeah, maybe they should start work on upgrading.

Dafuq do you think they’ve been doing constantly since I dunno….. the 50s? The ‘grid’ is constantly being upgraded. They just upgraded the transformer at the end of my dead end street in May.

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Canadian_Infidel t1_ixs38ta wrote

Those are not the transformers in question. Those are plentiful. The larger ones are all custom and are so critical and have such incredible lead times (years) the US military started keeping copies of them all since they would be such an easy military target.

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rgpc64 t1_ixs3ey4 wrote

"The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that first-round applications are open for competitive grants under the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership Programs, which total $10.5 billion in available funding, as well as the $2.5 billion Transmission Facilitation Program. Funded by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these programs together represent the largest single direct federal investment in critical transmission and distribution infrastructure."

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MonsieurOctober t1_ixw2tjq wrote

Yeah, I always like this argument. We sold about 14 million cars total last year. Not even a million were electric, right? If we are on the verge of doing what we couldn't possibly do overnight, we would have a hypothetical problem.

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