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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by dangrossman on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:05PM (#33061781)
I am curious how a voluntary "please conserve power 4 hours a day during a historic heat wave" request turned into "CA is doing rolling blackouts because they don't have enough energy" in the minds of millions. Residential electric use doubled over the past 30 years without issue.
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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by ryantgtg on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:56PM (#33062151)
The NYTimes The Daily podcast described the voluntary request as “the state asked people to not charge their EVs” (paraphrase). Poor quality information everywhere.
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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by anikom15 on Monday October 03, 2022 @05:30PM (#33073958)
Rolling blackouts are separate from Flex Alerts.
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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by dangrossman on Monday October 03, 2022 @05:31PM (#33073971)
Hence me asking why they're being conflated in the public consciousness.
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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by anikom15 on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:23PM (#33076117)
Are they? Both of these things happen regularly in California and have been for decades.
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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by ryantgtg on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @12:48PM (#33083048)
California is a big state. In Southern California, neither of those things happen regularly (source: I've lived here since 1980). The last time they did happen regularly was with Enron.
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