Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs

Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by outside1234 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:52PM (#33061659)

There is substantial unused grid capacity overnight and during the day that the most basic of smart grid logic can schedule the car to turn on charging during.

In other words, shift the demand from the 4-9PM slot that is the hot spot.

For what this doesn't cover, this is not rocket science. We will build the capacity. It's just wires and generators.

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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by ryantgtg on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:43PM (#33062047)

And storage.

I work at an engineering firm that is heavily involved in these efforts in SoCal, and this is probably boring to say (without details) but the storage component is fascinating. Not my sector, though, so I won’t/can’t elaborate (I do work in sustainable transportation planning, though).

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