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EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK (www.carbonbrief.org)
submitted 1 day ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1429718/evs-are-now-9-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-drive-in-the-uk

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I often get paid for charging mine. They paid me 30p on Sunday.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How?

(No need to go into too much detail as I'm not in the UK; I'm just curious)

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I assume that electricity price sometimes goes negative when excess is produced, resulting in some providers paying you for using electricity at that time.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

🤔 Interesting. I never even considered what happens if excess energy is produced

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago

It's precisely that. The winds blows and the sun shines, then suddenly the power company would rather pay their customers to use more power than pay the generators penalty fees to turn off.