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time2roll wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

NJRVer wrote:

Your city's power company must be pretty backwards.
Go into any area of population and all you have to do is look up at the poles and see the lines that are run. In NJ the power companies keep up with development. Large power hog coming in, power company makes sure they can handle it. If not they will be stringing more cable on the poles. Not unusual to see 6 lines on one pole around here with all the development. This is just the regular wooden telephone pole on the side of the road, not the high tension towers.

Compare that to rural NC where I own property and there is one strand of wire on a telephone pole that is about 30% smaller than the poles here in NJ and the one wire on that pole looks like a piece of Romex.
Not going to run very many MegaChargers off that line.

Apparently my cities utility is not alone.....

Vast Majority of Utilities Just Beginning to Cope With EV Growth

If they don't have plans to handle EV cars in just 10-15 years, then how can they also handle EV semi's as well?

Forget the survey monkeys and self proclaimed pundits. Check with your actual utility. Is SATX San Antonio TX? Is that CPS energy?

CPS Energy is embracing plug-in vehicles

Jersey Central seems to encourage EVs

As for that single wire power transmission line.... is your phone still on a party line too? Perfect reason to pull the other two wires and get proper three phase power to your area. How long do you plan to have this out dated line limit the local economy and growth? Dang it this is America... get moving already. We were once a nation of doers instead of whiners.

Jersey Central is not very well liked. They had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do maintenance and upgrades.
Other power company, PSE&G, took it upon themselves to install a solar collector on just about every pole they own.