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Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. (insideevs.com)
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Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations will close immediately.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I give simple examples of power load issues and some of y'all take it like a literal argument against just some examples and then the problem goes away. Good grief. Essentially your "easy to accomadate" is just everyone use less power and charge your cars longer".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The argument against your example scales, though. You can do demand management with EV chargers, either at the household level or grid scale. Unless your power supply is running so close to the edge it can't cope with existing normal usage, adding EV charging in the midnight to 6am period when power consumption is otherwise really low works just fine. And nobody cares if their car took 6 hours to charge instead of 5, because they sleep through it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know much about Tokyo? How many people there do you think live in houses with a garage compared to apartments? Your idea only works for the portion of people with a house and at least a driveway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with grid demand?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't use slow chargers between midnight and 6 am if you can't charge the vehicle at your house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you live in an apartment and own a car, you're parking it somewhere. Put the chargers there.