Re:Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July
by adrianN on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @03:25AM
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The problem can be alleviated with more chargers. If every parking spot had a charger you could slow-charge with much lower pressure on the grid. 2kW over night are plenty for most people’s driving needs.
Re:Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July
by hvb2 on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:11AM
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You could but the customer seems to want as fast of a charge as possible...
Having driven an EV for over 10 years, I don't see why. There's plenty of places where you have the time but still.
Re:Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July
by sam_lowry_ on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @03:29AM
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>incandescent light bulbs
which are an order of magnitude less efficient than contemporary LED lights.
But increasingly it's becoming a problem that those cables have nowhere to run to as the grid isn't capable of serving them all. There might be excess generation but unless you have the capacity in the wires to get it where it's needed you're still stuck.
Especially in dense old cuties where the grid was built when the goal was to power a bunch of incandescent light bulbs. Not all the appliances we have today let alone cars with a battery capacity equal to a household's weekly usage of electricity when the grid was designed.