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Why EVs Won't Crash the Electric Grid - And More

14 Jun 2023 | Abstracted from Washington Post

"More than 90 percent of new cars sold in [Norway] were plug-in electric...from May. More than 20 percent of the country's overall vehicle fleet is electric, a share expected to rise to one-third by 2025...So far, the grid has essentially shrugged it off.

"The United States isn’t nearly as far along. Only 8.4 percent of new car sales were plug-in electric in the first quarter of 2023...In fact, battery electric vehicles can be part of this

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