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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by Scoundreller on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:09PM (#33061326)
Already a thing in cold climates in parking lots, except it’s for your block heater. Usually it switches between sides of the lot every X minutes.

https://www.gm-volt.com/threads/plugging-into-outdoor-parkad...

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by jeffalyanak on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:47PM (#33101072)
Yup!

I'm not sure what the max power output of those types of deployments are, but I've seen block heaters in Canada that pull as much as 1500 watts, so that's not insignificant.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by theshrike79 on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:48AM (#33064629)
Over here it's a 2 hour timer you set up, most cars heat up from 0600-0800 or 0700 to 0900, depending on when people start off to work.
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