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by Tanoc 1331 days ago
The eventual plan as was announced was that power consumption would reduce once a majority of vehicles were EVs, since the EVs could charge at night during minimal demand and discharge to the grid during the day at peak demand. There's a lot of ignoring possible (and likely) catastrophes with that plan, and Germany found out how flimsy it really is when Russia invaded Ukraine and made economically viable low sulfur coal and natural gas much scarcer.