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Great news. Beyond the direct savings in CO2, and of course zero emissions inside cities, electrical cars play an important role in shifting towards renewable e
by _ph_ 10y ago
Great news. Beyond the direct savings in CO2, and of course zero emissions inside cities, electrical cars play an important role in shifting towards renewable energy. Electrical cars do not only add their own storage capacity to the grid, mass production of electrical cars is going to push battery prices further down. For switching to an all-electric car market, battery production has to increase about 100x, with the corresponding consequences on the prices.
There will be an interesting point in time, when electrical cars are just a fraction of the market, but prominent enough, that they are considered desirable by a large part of the buyers. Once this point is reached, there will be strong pressure on combustion engined vehicles, as they might still sell based on peoples needs (mostly price, range) but no longer the fancy desired technology which causes people to buy the more expensive and fancy models.
- DrScump 10y agoElectrical cars do not only add their own storage capacity to the grid I was not aware that this is happening in the USA now.
- _ph_ 10y agoTheir collective capacity is to low (as there are to few electrical cars) to appear on the radar of the utility companies yet, but as their numbers increase, they become important parts of managing the grid. Just controlling the charge time and speed of a million electric cars gives easily a gigawatt of regulation power.
- DrScump 10y agoNo, I meant in terms of autonomously directing chargers to pull power out of vehicles and back into the grid, as the comment implied.