The feeling comes from real world experiences with electric cars, which for 90% of Americans is primarily dealing with Tesla. Stupid door handles, stupid steering wheels, stupid touchscreen based controls. It’s a real complaint, and if it’s coming from Americans it’s primarily complaining from the dominant electric car brand they’ve had experience with, which is an American brand with American made cars.
But this is a distrust that is primarily applied to Tesla, an American car company whose cars are made in America. You’re not making any sense.
One way I get around this is to put a thermal mass like a cast iron pan under the pot I want to cook slowly since it evens out the pulses but then it heats extremely slowly.
Yeah, at that point it’s just like a shitty resistive heating stove with extra steps.
This is Xenophobia wrapped up in our emotions around cars
What? Tesla is like the worst offender for this.
Kinda depends on the rock, right?
I think they’re allowed to, but just can’t hook it up to the grid. The Alabama Power fee looks to me like it applies only to generation capacity that is actually connected to the grid, under an interconnection agreement with the utility.
I can imagine a completely separate circuit, not at all connected to the rest of the electrical system, that only powers things that don’t need grid backup: EV chargers, HVAC equipment, other heating or cooling equipment, etc. You’d probably want a decent amount of battery backup, though, to make the best use of that equipment.
Almost every American home has 240V coming in, with 2 hot wires with 120V AC exactly 180° out of phase with each other, and a neutral wire that’s supposed to be roughly ground voltage. The standard is to split the 240V into 120V for each circuit at the actual breaker panel, by feeding each normal circuit in the house one hot and one neutral wire. But setting up a particular circuit for 240V service is trivial by using both hot wires.
And the actual distribution grid itself, before it hits the transformer that steps it down to 240V right before actual customer meters, is going to be much, much higher voltage in any country. Higher voltage means less line loss, so power lines use high voltage. That part doesn’t differ significantly between countries.