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If all the country's cars are charging overnight, do you think that that might come to be considered "peak" or become otherwise more expensive electricity?
by billbrown 8y ago
If all the country's cars are charging overnight, do you think that that might come to be considered "peak" or become otherwise more expensive electricity?
- benj111 8y agoIn that case all you need is dynamic time of day pricing and a feedback mechanism to the cars. Or you could give control of the car batteries to the power companies, and let them charge them by X oclock, this has already been suggested as part of a virtual power station type setup.
- CydeWeys 8y agoThe point is that you'd charge them off-peak, whenever that might be. The ideal scenario would be no more peaks or troughs at all, yielding a perfectly level baseline at all times, moderated by all the grid-attached batteries in vehicles and buildings that are smartly choosing when to draw (or even feed back) power. And the majority of the nation's electricity usage will never be for automobile transportation, even if 100% of vehicles were electric. There's simply too many other big consumers of electricity.