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What fud? This is a standard way to deal with grid issues. Some people don't see electric cars / chargers as ideology that must remain absolutely pure of oil.
by throwaway3306a 2y ago
What fud? This is a standard way to deal with grid issues.
Some people don't see electric cars / chargers as ideology that must remain absolutely pure of oil. Some are just pragmatic - it's a good car that runs cheaply, and supercharger is critical infrastructure that needs a reliable backup.
- thebruce87m 2y ago> Some people don't see electric cars / chargers as ideology that must remain absolutely pure of oil. It’s normally the anti-EV people that seem to go for this angle as a kind of “gotcha”. They are normally the ones spreading the “all the chargers run on diesel generators” misinformation too. Can you run a charger on a generator? Probably. Is it standard practice or mildly common? Absolutely not.
- throwaway3306a 2y agoYeah, but reacting with the naive assumption that there is never any backup generator is just the other extreme.
- thebruce87m 2y agoI don’t think these are equivalent. You might get special cases such as a charging station in the outback of Australia where this is necessary but it’s not like it’s a standard option on any install.
- throwaway3306a 2y agoBut did anybody claim that? The OP said "to handle spikes". That already tells it's an unusual solution for unusual problems by itself.
- thebruce87m 2y agoThe original comment was: > Tesla uses local diesel generators to handle spikes. This suggests that it is a standard solution for a reasonably common problem for Tesla. Common enough that it is seen as the accepted solution by the company. The only instance I have ever seen of this was an attempt as anti-EV misinformation which was debunked. It is not a common solution at all. It would definitely be a viable solution in some places and I am not against it, but for some reason the anti-EV lot want to push a narrative that it is common when it is not.
- throwaway3306a 2y agoSpikes in grids are not common in any way. But if they are happening at a particular location then yes, a generator is a standard solution for everyone, not just Tesla. There are not many ways to handle it, it's basically either a battery (very expensive and probably too small capacity and output current), a generator or shutting down.