• Sonori@beehaw.org
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    Also, while EVs do take a lot of power, it’s less than an average amarican air conditioner. We rolled those out to most american homes in just twenty years. The current grid build out is less an unprecedented increase, and more a return to form after decades of coasting on our past success by using efficiency gains to avoid capacity expansion.

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      Exactly. California and Texas were struggling to keep up before EVs (probably because of AC actually). There is no reason they can’t upgrade their infrastructure to compensate.