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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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[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 9 months ago

It doesn't though. If you convert all ICE cars to BEV tomorrow it doesn't matter how much you do demand management the grid will be overwhelmed... OR you demand managed so hard that effectively nobody can charge their car regardless of how long they leave it on the charger.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

We've got enough excess supply coming online as people install solar that we're seeing the wholesale electricity price occasionally flip negative. We might not have enough power to satisfy 2035's demand today, but we can accommodate a lot more EVs than we've got on the road.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

What does that have to do with grid demand?

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

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

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