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Re:Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days by paganel on Saturday August 07, 2021 @03:38AM (#28096633)
About a week or so ago the Greek PM (I think it was the PM) strongly advised his fellow Greek compatriots to use less air conditioning because the electrical grid was very close to collapsing. No way one can add a few million EVs to that grid.

And Greece is a EU member with a resonably well functioning economy (ignoring the financial crisis from a decade ago), I fail to see how poorer countries will be able to make all this work.

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Re:Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days by carcostthrow on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:08AM (#28097096)
Could go either way. Where I live we also had issues with the grid getting close to capacity due to air conditioning.

That said, someone mentioned to me once that it's about 7 years from the time a power company to notify the government of intention to build a power plant to completion. At least for natural gas plants. So it's plausible for the necessary capacity to be built over the next 15 years.

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