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“Expensive” is a very relative term — running high capacity power is something we’re very good at and scales well (it’s not 2x as expensive to increase power av
by mikeyouse 6y ago
“Expensive” is a very relative term — running high capacity power is something we’re very good at and scales well (it’s not 2x as expensive to increase power availability by 2x). Even with dozens of trucks charging at 100+ amps, it’s no more power hungry than your average industrial site - and it has the benefit of off-peak utilization so there’s much more slack before it would require new generation from the power company.
- fyfy18 6y ago100 amps at what voltage? At 220v that's only 22kW which is nothing. This year my city has installed 350kW EV chargers in the old town without digging up the street (other than under where they install it), so the infrastructure must have already been there. I assume in an industrial area it would not at all be an issue.
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- mikeyouse 6y agoYeah I meant 100kW, but you’re right that even much higher power versions don’t require much retrofitting. A company I worked for had to install power to support 5MW of equipment where there was previously only a few houses nearby and the cost to do so was under $1M which was something like 2% of the total project cost. Incremental upgrades are extremely reasonable from a “capex / useful life” perspective.