re: California Asks Residents to Avoid Charging Electric Vehicles

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Are you implying the peak hours are not being affected by the EVs? If not, why would they ask people not to charge their EVs during those hours?
Because people are coming home from work between 6-9pm and charging their vehicles when the get home. Contributing to the strain sitting those hours.

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I implied nothing, I asked for clarification on your statement. But since you provided your basis for that comment I'll give some context. Yes EVs contribute to peak loads, because people come home and plug in their cars rights when they pull in the garage, as you noted. It's why smart chargers are being developed and deployed. But you know what else draws more power between 6-9pm, just about everything. People charge their phones more, run the A/C to cool the house off, wash closes, fire up all of electric appliances, etc. The question really is what's the load capacity of each, and to put it very simply, EV loads aren't even a top 10 contributor. If you look at the public advisors, there was a whole lot of things listed to lighten the load, and one of those things was to not charge you EV. Along with setting your AC at 82, not running your dryer and more.

So, saying peak has anything to do with EVs other than maybe being the 11th or 12 aggregated load contributor is false. And all this peak shite was around long before EVs were being made at any scale. I was fighting PG&E on peak rate cases before Elon bought Tesla.

ETA: Think about it like this. There are about 250k EVs in Ca. That's about 1.7% of all vehicles in the state for context. Now, how many air conditioners, electric stoves, electric clothes dryers, pool pumps, etc. are there in a state with 14.18M homes? It's simple math, EVS are a nothing load even if 100% of people plugged in and that's certainly not the case. Just because someone from a Ca utility put it on their PSA doesn't mean anything. You're giving these people too much credit for actually thinking about it.

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Need more solar panels along with rainbows and unicorns.

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Throw some storage on that solar and not only can you tell the utility to GFY, but you'll make bank dumping excess power back in the grid during those peaks.

This is why I don't understand the push for all these car companies to go all EV by 2030 to 2040. We can't supply the power we need now, much less when you have 50 million EV's on the road.

This makes me think the EV push is brought on by the elite, NWO, the Reseters, greenies, and it will limit our freedoms to travel when and where we want.

The push for EV's by car makers make sense because it is a much less complicated system and vehicle and is cheaper to make.

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The push for EV's by car makers make sense because it is a much less complicated system and vehicle and is cheaper to make.

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Yep, I'm all for EVs, but it's wayyyyyy too early to be making them mandatory by states, I don't like that.

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Throw some storage on that solar and not only can you tell the utility to GFY, but you'll make bank dumping excess power back in the grid during those peaks.

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Yeah, in about 10 or 20 years after breaking even from the initial investment.

These people are retarded lol

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But you know what else draws more power between 6-9pm

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Gasoline-powered vehicles?

Oh, wait...

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Gasoline-powered vehicles?

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Do the calculation for the grid load of gas pumps and get back to me.

And btw, for the record let me say it again, mandated EV roll outs are stupid. But the misinformation this place spews is ridiculous. I don't own an EV and personally have zero desire to have one. However, I've spent a lifetime working all over the energy sector (mostly O&G) and people have to be honest about this shite and not just regurgitate they're sides talking points.

But oil and gas is evil.