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Re:E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electri... by lostlogin on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:48PM (#35496356)
Charging at home is trivial and requires no infrastructure. It’s an improvement on going to a petrol station.

Long haul trips are the tricky bit, but that’s surely not that hard to solve.

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Re:E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electri... by pg938hkd on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:24PM (#35497249)
It actually will require additional infrastructure or at least some changes to metering to encourage nightly charging instead of at like 5pm
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Re:E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electri... by lostlogin on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:29PM (#35497297)
Don’t all EV cars have timers built in? My low end model does.

It’s also only charging at the rate of a standard wall socket, so I’m not sure the grid cares that much.

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Re:E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electri... by pg938hkd on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:23PM (#35499278)
Maybe we never set ours up. No reason to do that unless the utility changes rates based on time of use
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Re:E.P.A. Is Said to Propose Rules Meant to Drive Up Electri... by lostlogin on Sunday April 09, 2023 @04:37AM (#35500920)
This is very much a thing where I live in New Zealand.

I’m sure that I could save money by tailoring usage better, but ‘cheaper overnight’ is about all I know about it.

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