Essay by Eric Worrall
Sydney radio station 2GB has reported a hilarious request from an Electric Vehicle owners group for neighbours to ration their use of electricity, so their EVs can charge.
I’m guessing the EV owners invested in fast chargers, only to discover the local grid is already maxed out, leading to a shortage of spare electricity for their expensive virtue signalling props.
From the text it doesn’t look like anyone other than EV owners got invited to the meeting which produced this communique. Perhaps they see themselves as the green moral executive of their street.
I leave it to readers to suggest an appropriate response to such a letter. Please ration your use of swearwords.
“Dear neighbours, regarding your “Roster Ration” request:
No.
Love,
Your neighbours”
this has to be fake, right??? RIGHT??? Tell me there aren’t people this insane among us. Please!!!
Your planning failure is your problem. I suggest you invest in a gasoline powered generator or buy one of these and get to pedaling!
https://youtu.be/HUr-ACN3ZJ8
Just looking at this flier, it must have been written by a very young poorly educated non-STEM graduate. The infrastructure for electricity distribution was not from the 1822’s. This statement is so stupid that I can only assume it is from a satire site, otherwise, someone should request a refund on their education………
I put that down to exaggeration for effect. Likely their electric lines were not installed this year either. Facts be damned.
Since it was Brighton in Melbourne and as that city was not founded until 1835 then they obviously have their heads placed in a very dark space if they think the electric infrastructure dates from 1822.
Perhaps they could revise their dates after looking at this?
14 fascinating facts about the history of electricity in Australia
Dear EV owners,
You certainly have our full support of your efforts to Save The Planet.
We, the non-EV owners, have developed a schedule whereby EV owners can charge their vehicles while all of your neighbors abstain from using any and all electric appliances.
For your convenience, we will stop using electricity between the hours of 6:00 pm and 11:pm on all of the days that don’t have a ‘Y’ in them.
It comes as a bit of a sacrifice to us, the non-EV owning neighbors, but we all agreed it was the least we could do to help you Save The Planet.
Sincerely,
Your non-EV owning neighbors
Their arrogance is exceeded only by their ignorance. I wonder if they know when the first electric motor was demonstrated, when the first dynamo was demonstrated and by whom. I doubt if they know when and where the first electrical generation and distribution system was built and by whom, while I’m sure almost everyone here has the answers straight away.
No doubt they all vote Teal and have never had a job outside of the public service.
Appropriate response: you’re ‘avin’ a larf.
Thanks for the laugh…not so much “ha, ha” , but more like “oooooH!, as in a sick joke.
However, there is a serious issue about the “grid”. The distribution system is NOT being examined enough.
Even though we are finally waking up to the issues of the transmission grid and the extraordinary cost of incorporating intermittent, over-valued “green” energy, we are not showing the likely more costly re-building of distribution circuits.
From local load studies and experience, distribution systems are
(can be) the highest cost/coincident or peak kW , KVA, in the electric system… from highest labor costs per customer or coincident or peak kW
…and have historically been modified slowly in small percentages of the system.
Rapid changes in customer loads by law/regulation will force utilities to modify distribution service at the individual customer and back through the system. And force customers to expand, modify service entrances and circuits.
Even Time-of-Day rates can effect voltage-limited rural lines and thermal-limited urban lines.
So, what will EVs, solar panels, customer owned generators, …do?
They should charge at the same time and trip the service. The utility will replace it with a better one.
No it won’t “domestic service” is defined and the utilities will be compliant. Either the owner pays or some government scheme and grant would need to be available.
The small sacrifice today will help put an end to global warming and the associated issues…
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By the way, your tree shades our roof, and we want to put in solar panels …
“Dear Neighbor,
Since you have decided to purchase this vehicle which uses a common resource intensively without asking any of us what we thought about this new burden, we suggest you drive less.
Thank you,
The Other Neighbors”
Eric, I don’t know what building construction is like in Australia, but in modern U.S. neighborhoods most of the houses have a 200 Amp service which itself limits fast charging. To run a household all on electricity, including charging a car or maybe even two, might require a 500 Amp service — new wiring all over the place including the feed to the neighborhood, new substations, all the way back to a bigger Hoover Dam adapter.
Just a dedicated 480V service (a 220V like for an electric dryer will charge twice as fast as the typical 120V household plug) but a 480V secondary requires the installation of a specific Transformer instead of the typical single phase 120/240V so most Transformers would need replacing to go 480V (you could try parallel 240V services)
That would require the charger be a 480V rated device. Does anyone make one?
How many people could afford having 2 service entrances into their home?
Would the local juristriction having authority even allow it?
This is another example of a tremendous amount of capital trying to solve a non-problem.
You can’t have one mono and one tri meter?
I think you are trying to say single phase and three phase when Bryan was postulating about voltage.
The only advantage with a higher voltage is less current so smaller wires. Still the same power usage.
Since the rest of the home’s appliances would probably not be rated for 480V, you would need a separate transformer with an upgraded service entrance or another dedicated service entrance.
You can get anything you want if the local authority allows it and you pay for it (handsomely).
The other, bigger problem for them is that 480V is 3-phase and is not available at all most places, generally only in industrial areas.
Few French homes has 3 phases 400 V , but it’s possible.
I think it’s common in Germany.
Chuckle.
Dear Neighbour..
I note by your choice of vehicle that you are not concerned in the slightest by the exploitation of child labour in African cobalt mines, or Uighur slaves in Chinese factories, nor indeed by the rape of the planet for the extra materials required by “eco-friendly” vehicles. Are you aware that if you were to take away all of the materials that did not involve those nasty fossil fuels for the mining, refining, processing, transportation and final assembly of your “planet saver” you would be left with precisely nothing? So, if you want a reliable source of electricity to keep your virtue signaller mobile I suggest you buy yourself a diesel generator, or wait until they invent a battery that can be charged by your sense of self-righteousness. Until then be sure to let me know when your preferred charging time is so I can suck every electron from the grid I can manage during that period.
Thanks,
Your caring, sharing neighbour.
Right-Handed Shark: “[…] or wait until they invent a battery that can be charged by your sense of self-righteousness.”
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👍 👍 Positively golden.
When I was building a house many years ago utility limited me to one electric shower. Agreed to two so long as both went through one circuit breaker, i.e. only possible to use one at a time.
And that is nothing compared to load of fast EV charger. Throw in electric house heating as well and it is clear that this does not add up without a major increase in grid. And at the same time they are closing proper power stations and adding windmills.
The whole thing makes no sense unless your goal is to cause hardship and chaos.
Electric shower? That phrase is just scary to me.
A common domestic device in the UK (and other countries) where a dedicated circuit of up to13kW is used. An electric kettle is probably more dangerous.
They are called electric instantaneous water heaters google 🙂
Sounds like what I’ve always called tank-less water heater.
Yep.
Might I suggest they go hybrid?
Dear dweeb.
As it is your virtue signalling that requires that new service be run to this neighborhood, it is your exclusive responsibility to purchase such new service.
They are only exporting their emissions to the power station so the planet remains unsaved. How sad.
This is the California version, three weeks old already:
Twinkle twinkle little star, and
Along comes Newsom in his ‘lectric car, saying
Hey, you Fresnoids, better shut down your AC, ’cause it
Aint a-gonna leave sufficient volts for ME.
All I can think of is The Tragedy Of The Commons. With a common resource it should be share and share alike. Until some jerk tries to add an extra cow!
Well, maybe they should charge their cars with their solar panels, huh? LOL!
My response would have to be a yard sign in the shape of a hand giving the “bird”, with the words ‘to EV owners’ in bright color.
Virtue signalers need to be have their stupidity thrown back in their faces.
The problem is… these idiots really do believe their EV is going to end global warming and save the planet.
Does GFY translate to Aussie?
Yes
We all have to sacrifice for the common good!
BTW, how much $$$ were the EV owners paid to buy their vehicles?
From what I just read on line, they only get a few thousand dollars from several state governments. Not much, really.
If I were in that neighborhood, I would make sure the EV owners were charging their cars during the day when there is plenty of cheap, clean solar energy, or at night only when there is plenty of wind generated electricity.
I have a sign in my home office that says “Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.” When my children were growing up I pointed to that sign a lot. They really hated it until they got old enough to enter the workforce and/or have their own children. Unfortunately the entitled EV owners in the story never grew up.