Electric vehicles vs Internal Combustion...

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Brown outs or black outs are part of the reason for rolling out smart meters because with them they can cut power to single streets at a time

They can do that already. It's called Powergen digging up the road 


As to smart meters allowing them to vary prices during peaks, again we've had that for years. It's called Economy 7. And it makes sense. Most electricity generation is 24/7 such as wind, hydro and nuclear. So when demand drops, daytime industry stops using it, we turn off our electric kettles and TVs, it makes sense to encourage off peak usage by lowering prices.

Wind? 24/7? What planet are you on? Our local coal fired has to fire up when the wind drops, and has done regularly this year