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Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds (thedriven.io)

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[–] ChicoSuave 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Check when the last time an installed utility performed maintenance. Now you want them to turn things off while they put in new hardware? The only thing that will drive a business to make that kind of change is if the money is behind it, which will happen when EVs are much more prevalent.

[–] baru 2 points 8 months ago

Why would they need to turn anything off? That's not how they expand capacity in the Netherlands. Why would it be needed?

[–] StaySquared 1 points 8 months ago

Not from all the profits made by all the people using electricity and paying for electricity? And electrical grid has redundancy. You can take down primary and secondary takes over temporarily.