{"id":9238,"date":"2022-11-07T04:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2022-11-07T04:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T04:23:20","slug":"california-demands-everyone-drive-electric-vehicles-but-cant-even-keep-the-lights-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9238","title":{"rendered":"California Demands Everyone Drive Electric Vehicles, but Can&#8217;t Even Keep the Lights on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;California will ban the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles, just as it has banned the sale of new lawnmowers and other power equipment that&#8217;s powered by gasoline engines. It&#8217;s the state&#8217;s latest attempt at technology forcing\u2014&#8221;a strategy where a regulator specifies a standard that cannot be met with existing technology, or at least not at an acceptable cost,&#8221; as&nbsp;<em>Science Direct<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0040162504001076#:~:text=Technology%20forcing%20is%20a%20strategy,not%20at%20an%20acceptable%20cost.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a>.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;the same week that California policy makers announced an ambitious plan to shift California&#8217;s 27-million drivers into electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids, they also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/on-balance-with-leland-vittert\/california-asks-ev-owners-to-cut-back-on-charging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that Californians who currently own electric vehicles better not charge them for several days because the grid can&#8217;t handle the load.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"H8iXCS6qul\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/09\/09\/california-demands-evs-but-cant-even-keep-the-power-on\/\">California Demands Everyone Drive Electric Vehicles, but Can&#8217;t Even Keep the Lights on<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;California Demands Everyone Drive Electric Vehicles, but Can&#039;t Even Keep the Lights on&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/09\/09\/california-demands-evs-but-cant-even-keep-the-power-on\/embed\/#?secret=BZX6V0KkcT#?secret=H8iXCS6qul\" data-secret=\"H8iXCS6qul\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;California will ban the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles, just as it has banned the sale of new lawnmowers and other power equipment that&#8217;s powered by gasoline engines. It&#8217;s the state&#8217;s latest attempt at technology forcing\u2014&#8221;a strategy where a regulator specifies a standard that cannot be met with existing technology, or at least not at an acceptable cost,&#8221; as Science Direct explains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the same week that California policy makers announced an ambitious plan to shift California&#8217;s 27-million drivers into electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids, they also announced that Californians who currently own electric vehicles better not charge them for several days because the grid can&#8217;t handle the load.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,1504],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-electric-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}