He drives an electric truck in Yellowknife, but his home can't handle the charger it came with - eviltoast

A Yellowknife man bought a fully electric truck, expecting to install the 80 amp Level 2 charger it came with at his home. Then he found out he’d need to pay $12,000 to upgrade a transformer in his neighbourhood to make it work.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Like how we ask pointed questions about the airplane we’re about to fly on instead of just assuming some level of competence, maintenance and capacity improvements and safety.

    Hey, when you were taking the course and attending the meetings describing everything you may ever need to know about your power grid so you could ask all these questions, did they serve lunch? Was it hard to schedule with the similar courses and meetings with the water company? Mine were so hard to get scheduled, but I think they just didn’t have enough people to present the infrastructure and code compliance docs that space just seemed tight.

    • archengel@nichenerdery.duckdns.org
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      10 months ago

      Lol, that must have been after the courses describing all the laws in my country, how to pay taxes, and general adulting - which somehow I missed. As a kid I thought that might be how that worked, but it turns out there is too and you have to go out of your way to learn some of those things.