• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    grid systems couldn’t handle a complete EV swap by 2035. Look at the issues these stupid ai server farms

    While we’re so stagnant it would be a challenge, do you not see the difference between

    • a known, gradual transition with a 20 year timeframe (10 to end ice production + 10 for most existing to age out)
    • an immediate demand for for large amounts of power for a bubble technology that didn’t exist a couple years ago

    You can plan for a well known and couple decades timeframe, or the failure is yours. It’s harder to plan for surprises

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      14 hours ago

      We’re (the world) is currently massively back ordered on transformers by many years and no one is ramping up production. Let alone the rest of the infrastructure, or what people in apartments and others with no garages are set to do. Were too far out to solve those problems. Even 20 years out.

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        10 hours ago

        Maybe, but there’s a lot more chance to solve it 20 years out

        More importantly, generating and transmitting more power is not the only option. It is for ai since a datacenter needs huge power continuously. However EVs need much smaller amounts of power intermittently. If I plug in overnight, I don’t care when it charges or how fast as long as it’s done by morning. Not everyone does that at the same time, and we ought to be able to create a “smart” solution to coordinate this and minimize the impact

        EV potentially could coordinate with the grid so we don’t need much or any additional power but just use it at different times

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          6 hours ago

          You still have to look at the millions of people with no garages, that park on streets and apartment parking lots, and who won’t have means to charge outside of going and charging at fast charge stations away from where they live. These will all take massive amounts of high current power at peak times, not overnight. The people in their single family houses with their double car garages won’t be an issue for overnight charging. It will be an issue for all the others. Imagine places like Kansas city or Chicago or LA.