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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by _ph_ on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:56AM (#25109599)
In Germany, if you have a heat pump you can get special discounted rates if you let the utilities company switch off the pump for some time during peak demand. The same scheme could immediately be used for electric car charging. Actually I expect the utilities to be a big pusher for charging infrastructure, which is then controlled to even stabilize the grid.
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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by VBprogrammer on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:27AM (#25109774)
I think you missed this:

> This should be easy to fix but it is another thing which needs to be rolled out and working in the next 10 years.

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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by nicoburns on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:13AM (#25110078)
This isn't exactly a new idea though. This has been done in the past in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater). And rollout of smart meters is already in progress.
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