On 12 Feb 2022 at 8:24, Mark Abramowitz via EV wrote: > The slowness and lack of responsiveness of the utilities in California > have been a big issue in trying to deploy the technology.
You younguns weren't around then, but we crusty curmudgeons remember a half century and more back, when the electric utilities were pretty interested in electric vehicles. They were a regulated monopoly and had plenty of extra capacity. If they squinted just right, they could see dollar signs floating around up there, aaaaaaalmost ripe for the plucking. If you were a small company building (converting) EVs that cost 3 to 10 times what a comparable ICEV cost, just about the only customers you could really count on to lay out the green for them were those electric utilities. IIRC, most of Bob Aronson's infamous "elephant on roller skates"* Mars and Mars II lead sled conversions went to utilities. Ah, those were the days. :-\ *With thanks to Bob Rice, RIP David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I am the one with no secrets. They [the Chinese government] have secrets. It is only because they have secrets that they can imagine everyone else having them too. -- Ai Weiwei = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
