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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.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Northland Utilities told him he'd have to pay $12,000 to upgrade the transformer in his neighbourhood as well.

He can be forgiven for not asking if he would have to upgrade his grid

[–] sik0fewl@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s hard to imagine Canada being fully electric by 2035 if the consumers need to upgrade the grids themselves. I’m definitely gonna wait for my neighbour to buy one first!

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We don't need to upgrade the grid ourselves, we need to push the government to force these companies that make astronomical amounts of money off of us to upgrade their network. There's no reason why they need to have even a single drop of profit flow out to investors if they can't modernize their grid.

Maybe we just need to set a deadline for grid upgrades or they get nationalized.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

No, no. I'm ok with us uograding the grid ourselves.

Re-nationalize the power companies.

[–] baconisaveg@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sure the dealership that sold him the truck didn't bother to make sure it would work either.