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If possible, but it may only get worse. If EVs become more prevalent, it will only increase the evening demand as most people will charge when they get home fro
by ams6110 9y ago
If possible, but it may only get worse. If EVs become more prevalent, it will only increase the evening demand as most people will charge when they get home from work. Sure, maybe with timers you can shift that to midnight or something, but it's still happening at a time when Solar adds nothing.
You can't just toss out something like HVDC grids as a quick solution. That kind of infrastructure takes decades to build out.
- fulafel 9y agoI'm not sure why you discount charging during the day. Most EVs don't empty their battery by 6pm and require a full charge at 8am.
- blang 9y agoI'm guessing because there is less availability for charging during the day when you are at work, rather than at night when you are home.
- coryfklein 9y agoHow long to EVs take to charge? Should be pretty simple to put a time delay into the charger to _begin_ charging around 2 AM when energy usage has gone back down again.
- Brakenshire 9y agoThis is already happening, in a more sophisticated way: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/nissan-and-uk-government-lead-uk%E2%80%99s-biggest-vehicle-grid-project https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/nissan-and-uk-go... Consumers are offered reduced cost tariffs to simply request a charging level by a certain time tomorrow morning, and in the meantime let the grid take or receive electricity as it wishes.
- jonas21 9y agoEVs can also be part of the solution with demand-based pricing. Instead of charging when they got home from work, people could start dumping excess energy from the battery into the grid during the peak and charge overnight at lower-demand times.