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SO I FIGURED THE DEMAND-SMOOTHING ASPECT OF OVERNIGHT CHARGING would make it easier for utilities to?

By Glenn Reynolds

SO I FIGURED THE DEMAND-SMOOTHING ASPECT OF OVERNIGHT CHARGING would make it easier for utilities to cope with plug-in electric cars. But now there’s this: “Most utilities employ undersized transformers, which are designed to cool overnight. Without time to cool, sustained excess current will eventually cook a transformer’s copper windings, causing a short and blacking out the local loads it serves.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).