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0 pointsheadmelted5y ago0 comments

Was having this conversation with a neighbour the other day.

I have a 7kw charger at my house, but the loop for our street is 21kw, which is typical here. It’s going to be a big problem to solve when it comes to it.

I wouldn’t mind if I had to charge at 3.3kw, but if every car is an EV the current grid just isn’t going to be able to carry enough juice.

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core-questions5y ago

>I wouldn’t mind if I had to charge at 3.3kw, but if every car is an EV the current grid just isn’t going to be able to carry enough juice.

What about the theory some folks have that, once there's a ton of EVs on the grid, their batteries will help smooth out peak demands?

Also, how did you find out the capacity of your street?

headmeltedOP5y ago

The service engineer that installed my wall charger explained that it’s the upper cap on what they allocate in our area.

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