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Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by buboard on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:56PM (#21896261)
What's the electric grid situation in turkey? Can it sustain substantial car loads, and would this work outside big cities?
Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by rolleiflex on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:01PM (#21896291)
Disclaimer: not an expert.

It does have a decent, modern baseline grid running at 220v (EU standard). This is more amenable to EV than US 110v, but otherwise insignificant. A nontrivial portion of the base demand is supplied by hydroelectric dams, thus renewable, some old coal plants as generators of last resort, largely being replaced by natural gas plants for environmental and efficiency reasons. A new nuclear plant is going online in the next few years in Sinop.

I don’t think load created by EVs would make a significant difference. It’s a developed country connected into the European grid, if it can’t generate it’ll buy from its neighbours and sell to its citizens at a premium.

Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by BrandoElFollito on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:38AM (#21897533)
Nitpick: EU standard for tension is 230V (used to be 220V)
Re:Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $... by rolleiflex on Saturday December 28, 2019 @04:16AM (#21898000)
My apologies, you are correct. Turkey is also 230V it appears. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/World_Ma...