• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Everyone in the burbs run their AC full tilt all summer and the grid holds up just fine. An EV charger used overnight, when your AC runs less, would present no more of a load than the daytime high usage. Stop pushing anti-electrification bullshit, or move to Alberta, they love that shit.

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      1 year ago

      Who charges overnight? Everyone just plugs it in when they get home. It’s an issue that can’t just be handwaved away like that.

      Sure stuff can be on a timer, but codes need to be presented, adopted and they need to installed. That takes years, it’s already too late.

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        1 year ago

        Dude, electric car’s are about 25 computers on wheels. Adding a “charge between hours” function is so trivial I would be surprised if it doesn’t already exist. But no, you’re right, computers are a complicated pipe dream, we should all go back to coal burning, steam powered, difference engines and horseless carriages.

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          1 year ago

          I own an EV and there’s definitely a setting in the car to specify what time of day to charge (and my charger itself also has an app where I can specify that time restriction).