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Can't wait till everyone comes home from work and tries to plug in all of their batteries at the same time that's really going to work out well
by lumberingjack 5y ago
Can't wait till everyone comes home from work and tries to plug in all of their batteries at the same time that's really going to work out well
- WorldMaker 5y agoThere's plenty of excess capacity at night. The grid is provisioned for peak demand during the day which is dominated by heavy industrial usage that it will take a lot of cars to match at night even a fraction of the heavy industrial stuff the grid sees most working days. Some of the electric utility companies are very hopeful to see more of the "bathtub" filled (the chart of electric usage over an average day looks like it has a sharp "bathtub" at night) because there's efficiencies to gain as that happens (taking generators offline during the bathtub and then bringing them back online in the mornings takes a bunch more effort than just leaving them running).