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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by _hypx on Sunday July 23, 2023 @05:25PM (#36839994)
Not to mention radical increases from demanding everyone switching to heat pumps plus demanding industry switch to electrified versions of everything too. It's seriously a complete fantasy to think the grid can happen all that with minimal upgrades.
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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by redserk on Sunday July 23, 2023 @06:31PM (#36840611)
Dominion Energy in Virginia has an even worse problem than EVs to worry about: datacenters

https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2022/RD216/PDF

If you scroll to page 66 of the PDF, it’s insane how much more demand is needed for datacenters. It completely dwarfs forecasted EV power usage.

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