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Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion

Charging electric vehicles at home will exceed most power lines' capacity.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/updating-californias-grid-for-evs-may-cost-up-to-20-billion/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

bubbajet ,
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@arstechnica Or you could do like we do here in Texas: spend that money upgrading the grid for cryptocurrency producers.

peteriskrisjanis ,
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@arstechnica less cars maybe? Just idea.

JTS ,
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It's entirely disingenuous to omit the profits PG&E and SoCal Edison make in this reporting. They could still be massively profitable (not considering the huge increases in sales/revenue) over the time frames, and assuming worst case costs.

JTS ,
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Who cares? PG&E posted almost a billion dollars in Q42023 alone. This is less than 5 years of profits, and excludes Socal Edison. And I'm guessing most of this infrastructure cost is actually in their normal expenditure budget.

karlauerbach ,
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@arstechnica Home charging is already putting stress on in-home wiring. I know of too many houses with 100Amp or less feeds with wiring that is not up to the task.

We down-rated our home Tesla charger to 3.5kw to make sure we don't overload our in-house wiring.

inkican ,
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@arstechnica $20 Billion, or 1.75 California IOS (High speed rail) projects

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