I live in an area of Karachi labeled as load shedding exempt, 100% bill recovery area, star customer, posh area etc. by K-electric. Yet, there has never been a 30-day period where there hasn't been any electricity tripping. If it's not load-shedding, they call it maintenance work, upgradation, etc. At night in peak summer season, if too many houses turn on their ACs you see fireworks at a distant PMT. During monsoon season, when just a drop of rain falls, k-electric cuts off electricity and you receive a text stating that for the safety of our customers we have turned off the electricity. And how can you forget surges? Lost my washing machine twice, tv once, laptop charger, phone charger, video intercom, microwave. Now every appliance has a stabilizer and few sensitive electronics are connected to a small ups. During winter, load shedding is because power plants did not receive RLNG/fuel. During summer, the demand is just too high for the infrastructure to keep up. It has become a perpetual cycle now.
When such is the state of electric supply in the Holy land's biggest city, how do electric cars expect to take off? As for now, Audi E-Tron, etc. is nothing more than a rich man's toy in Pakistan.
