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UK Proposes Law To Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours:
The United Kingdom plans to pass legislation that will see EV home and workplace chargers being switched off at peak times to avoid blackouts.
Announced by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the proposed law stipulates that electric car chargers installed at home or at the workplace may not function for up to nine hours a day to avoid overloading the national electricity grid.
As of May 30, 2022, new home and workplace chargers being installed must be "smart" chargers connected to the internet and able to employ pre-sets limiting their ability to function from 8 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 10 pm. However, users of home chargers will be able to override the pre-sets should they need to, although it's not clear how often they will be able to do that.
[...] In addition to the nine hours a day of downtime, authorities will be able to impose a "randomized delay" of 30 minutes on individual chargers in certain areas to prevent grid spikes at other times.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @07:17PM
Buy an electric car! Quiet, sexy, even convenient because you don't have to go to fuel stations or smog checks! Pays for itself in *coughmumble* years! Never mind range anxiety because grocery getters and commuters don't go that far anyway!
... but fuck you anyway because electric cars don't pay fuel taxes, and stress the electrical system, so if you really want an electric vehicle, prepare to first take your whole household off-grid with a massive battery bank and be prepared to charge your own damn vehicle your own damn self, and by the way we hate you so we'll keep charging you for the electrical hookup to your place that you aren't using.
And fuck you. Right in your tight, puckered little cornhole. Fuck. You.