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What would be the impact of such fleets on electricity production management?

As these charge overnight, I'm guessing USPS could easily program them to charge when the electricity is the cheapest (i.e. overproduced), or skip charges when the remaining range is enough and electricity expensive.



Charging management based on electricity price is a solved problem already with multiple solutions. Seems like a no-brainer for an org like USPS to implement.


Large scale power management like this can help smooth out the supply and demand fluctuations.




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