Thursday, July 14, 2022

Drive Your EV, Except........

The Green New Deal drives head-on into the Green New Deal.

...Tesla has asked owners in Texas not to charge their cars during a heat wave to help avoid blackouts and overloading the state’s failing power grid.

The alert comes as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) called on residents to conserve energy. They have asked the state’s residents to refrain from using electricity from appliances and more to stop the grid from being pushed to near-emergency conditions.

Tesla stepped up to help the state with a new in-car alert to owners in the state, encouraging them not to charge during peak hours.

“A heat wave is expected to impact the grid in Texas over the next few days. The grid operator recommends to avoid charging during peak hours between 3 pm and 8 pm, if possible, to help statewide efforts to manage demand”, an in-car alert sent to Tesla owners reads, as reported by Electrek...

So you can drive anywhere you want, unless you run out of juice in the afternoon. 

Oh.  OK, then.

Got that?

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