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Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What's the cost of not doing it in the long run?

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The entirety of human civilization and a severe destabilization to all life on the planet.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cost? The benefit is no longer wasting resources on a mode of transportation that's inherently unsustainable, destructive, etc. Those resources would be much better allocated to public transit, light EVs, etc.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I meant for my question to be rhetorical. It should be unthinkable not to do it in the long run. $20bn is a lot of money, unless you consider the cost of completely fucking up your planet or whatever.