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The US added 1.2 million EVs to the grid last year, & electricity use went down (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/evs@lemmy.world

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2023 set another record for EV sales in the United States. About 1.2 million vehicles, or 7.6% of all sales, were electric according to Kelley Blue Book.

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[–] bagelberger@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is this possible? One word — efficiency. Our electric appliances have gotten so much more efficient.

The magic of efficiency could and hopefully will continue this 20-year miracle of keeping electricity consumption flat even while we add lots of new loads, as there is so much more low hanging fruit to be picked. LEDs still need to finish their market domination, and heat pumps are only just getting started and will save oodles of energy for space and water heating and even clothes drying. Building codes are continuously improving, as are appliance standards, meaning our homes and buildings and everything that uses energy in them, are constantly becoming more efficient (with no compromise in performance).

This all adds up. With the 1% that electricity production declined in 2023, we could have added something like another 10 million EVs to the grid last year and our overall electricity use would still have remained the same.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Every step of this has been a fight against more conservative elements. I somewhat understand the LED light battles, since early versions were expensive and poor quality, but even things like increased efficiency standards and “EnergyStar” have always been a battle. Why wouldn’t you choose the appliance that works just like the old one but a little more efficiently? More importantly, why would you get upset that someone else chooses that?

[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Ted Cruz lashed out at Xbox for adding a power saving mode option.