Tesla sent an alert to customers’ in-car screens advising them to avoid charging their vehicles between 3 PM and 8 PM. A heat wave is expected to impact the grid in Texas over the next few days the alert reads, according to Electrek.
Tesla is asking its customers in Texas to avoid charging their electric vehicles during peak times in order to prevent overtaxing the state’s power grid. The alerts come as Texas’ grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas or ERCOT, calls on residents to conserve electricity.
Tesla is trying to help the grid in its new home state of Texas as derive temperatures because of record electricity demand in the state. The automaker is pushing a new in-car alert to motivate off-peak charging.
Texas has a celebrated breakable grid that is having issues supporting increasing peak electricity demand. the issues have mostly come in the winter and middle of cold fronts, but the state’s electric grid is now not handling these early summer temperatures very well.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) declared that six power generation facilities stumbled offline yesterday, (ERCOT) is calling on residents to conserve electricity during the recent heatwave, as the system is being pushed to near-emergency conditions.
(That’s a different time range than the one highlighted by ERCOT, which recommended that Texans avoid running major appliances from 2 PM–8 PM.)Keeping an EV unplugged during peak times can help Texas’ grid avoid blackouts.
Triple-digit temperatures generally place more pressure on electrical systems as customers are more likely to crash their air conditioners. The heat dome fueling the heatwave also relieves Texas of its wind power, which usually generates about a part of its electricity.
This year it happened the second time that Tesla has motivated off-peak charging during a Texas heatwave. The company pressed the same alert in May 2022, when temperatures soared into the upper 90s over Mother’s Day weekend.
Tesla switch its headquarters to Texas from California last year. In addition to the new Gigafactory built outside of Austin, Musk also operates a SpaceX facility in Brownsville, Texas, and he reported that he has been living at the multimillion-dollar home of a friend along a lake in Austin.
After that musk denied the report and then claimed he currently stays in a “tiny home” in Boca Chica.), Tesla owners aren’t the only ones being asked to help conserve energy. bitcoin miners in taxes are also winding down some of their operations in reply to the spiking temperature.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced last week that six of its power generation facilities went offline following a high demand for power amid a heatwave. During the outage, the six stations would have produced enough electricity to power more than half a million homes.
