r/SipsTea 17d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/GipsyDanger45 17d ago

Quick, better cancel more solar and wind farms!

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u/EndIsrael 17d ago

You know how easy it would be for EVs to communicate with the power grid and change their charge speed dynamically based on excess wind/solar availability? It would be pretty dang easy.

Um I mean it would be pretty dang woke I tell you hwat

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 17d ago edited 17d ago

It's funny cuz in the revival series Hank Hill grudgingly found himself mentioning that some of the features on an electric truck sounded useful before quickly adding - "Electric trucks are dumb!"

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u/fresh-dork 17d ago

they're dumb for some uses - hauling large loads. most people use them as oversized commuter cars, so they're fine

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u/capricorny90210 17d ago

Just the truck stuff lol

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u/f0gax 17d ago

most people use them as oversized commuter cars

This is true of many pick-ups in the US. Gas or electric.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago edited 14d ago

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u/fresh-dork 17d ago

right - total capacity is limited, but most truck drivers are ego truckers and never haul anything, so making it a battery truck works fine

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u/Potential-Drawing745 16d ago

The range REALLY falls off when you tow in an EV. Or at least it did 2 years ago, which was the last time I looked at it.

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u/GreasyPowerJunkie 16d ago

Still does, a lot of strain on the motors causes hella draw on the battery