Re:US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save...
by lolwhatitis on Friday March 16, 2018 @09:51AM
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If you live in a subdivision built within the past couple decades, your electric runs underground, making it quite expensive to run a second or third primary phase. You also then need a three-phase transformer, which is considerably larger than a typical one-phase. Oh, and your service will be commercial/industrial, which typically comes with demand and energy charges that can be quite steep: https://www.northwesternenergy.com/docs/default-source/docum...
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Re:US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save...
by blattimwind on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:03AM
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That's true, for North America, but entirely misses the point I made (i.e. when you try to push dozens of kW into a house, single phase becomes worse than a below-average idea).