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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We definitely need an urban charging grid if the electric car is to find a place in town, where it’s needed most. What if I lived in Brooklyn and worked weird hours in Long Island, for example? What if I needed to drive to a hospital at 3 AM? Our subways don’t shut down at night, our cars cannot and should not.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). Definitely wont work.