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> then recharge during the day when the sun comes out. Unless you actually need the car during the day..

by fooker 5y ago

Valgrim 5y ago
Then you buy a home battery, as he said?
- prawn 5y ago
  It feels that people can get a bit unimaginative when talking about the future of cars or solar or, in this case, a combination of both. "What if I drive the car to work? I guess this whole solar-battery scheme falls apart." FWIW, the people I know with EVs have solar panels and a home battery.
  - stephen_g 5y ago
    I hope to get an electric car soon, and it would be great to be able to charge at work - even if I had a home battery. And I'm sure there will be programs to encourage businesses to get chargers into car parks around here in the next few years - and since cars are parked for a fair while, it can just be slow charging like 7 kW single phase (I guess it would make sense to also have two or so fast charging spaces for when people need it) Charging at work would be ideal - it would all basically happen 100% in solar hours. My work has solar on its roof itself, I'm sure more and more places will, so it all really makes sense. And that way I could basically run my house 100% off a battery, whereas charging an electric car from a home battery would probably mean I'd still have to buy a fair bit of power from the grid. But yeah, the story basically is that it's all possible and not that hard.
Ma8ee 5y ago
Then you get a separate battery. But the vast majority only drives their car back and forth to work, so most of the day the cars are just standing there and could be charged.
- ThalesX 5y ago
  If we’re speculating about the future, having cars sit by idly all day seems like a good target for disruption. I’d like to believe we’ll get to the point where we share self driving vehicles or own some that go on about their day producing profit. The cars could also charge themselves in the process.
  - na85 5y ago
    All it would take is one person smoking in their shared car to ruin it for the rest of us. Once a vehicle (or a home) has been smoked in, you can never completely get the smell out. It makes me nauseous to sit in that smell for any length of time.
    - pkdpic 5y ago
      Im all for having a more robust ecosystem of shared vehicles. But it does make me think of the rough physical state of shared scooters and bikes in my neighborhood...
    - Ma8ee 5y ago
      Hotels have solved that problem by simply prohibiting smoking in most rooms, and if you get caught doing it anyway, they’ll charge you a high fee to sanitise the room.
    - ThalesX 5y ago
      For around two years I’m constantly using shared cars via apps. I’ve had almost zero issues. If the car is dirty or smells you can review it and one would assume repeat offenders get booted off.
    - nitrogen 5y ago
      The shared-everything vision of the future ignores the extent to which people's cars serve as extensions of their home and storage. Having a bunch of stuff always available when you need it, and knowing that nobody else will stink up the place, means that personally owned cars will remain popular for a very long time.

> then recharge during the day when the sun comes out. Unless you actually need the car during the day..

by fooker 5y ago

> then recharge during the day when the sun comes out. Unless you actually need the car during the day..

Valgrim 5y ago

Then you buy a home battery, as he said?

prawn 5y ago
It feels that people can get a bit unimaginative when talking about the future of cars or solar or, in this case, a combination of both. "What if I drive the car to work? I guess this whole solar-battery scheme falls apart." FWIW, the people I know with EVs have solar panels and a home battery.
- stephen_g 5y ago
  I hope to get an electric car soon, and it would be great to be able to charge at work - even if I had a home battery. And I'm sure there will be programs to encourage businesses to get chargers into car parks around here in the next few years - and since cars are parked for a fair while, it can just be slow charging like 7 kW single phase (I guess it would make sense to also have two or so fast charging spaces for when people need it) Charging at work would be ideal - it would all basically happen 100% in solar hours. My work has solar on its roof itself, I'm sure more and more places will, so it all really makes sense. And that way I could basically run my house 100% off a battery, whereas charging an electric car from a home battery would probably mean I'd still have to buy a fair bit of power from the grid. But yeah, the story basically is that it's all possible and not that hard.

Ma8ee 5y ago

Then you get a separate battery. But the vast majority only drives their car back and forth to work, so most of the day the cars are just standing there and could be charged.

ThalesX 5y ago
If we’re speculating about the future, having cars sit by idly all day seems like a good target for disruption. I’d like to believe we’ll get to the point where we share self driving vehicles or own some that go on about their day producing profit. The cars could also charge themselves in the process.
- na85 5y ago
  All it would take is one person smoking in their shared car to ruin it for the rest of us. Once a vehicle (or a home) has been smoked in, you can never completely get the smell out. It makes me nauseous to sit in that smell for any length of time.
  - pkdpic 5y ago
    Im all for having a more robust ecosystem of shared vehicles. But it does make me think of the rough physical state of shared scooters and bikes in my neighborhood...
  - Ma8ee 5y ago
    Hotels have solved that problem by simply prohibiting smoking in most rooms, and if you get caught doing it anyway, they’ll charge you a high fee to sanitise the room.
  - ThalesX 5y ago
    For around two years I’m constantly using shared cars via apps. I’ve had almost zero issues. If the car is dirty or smells you can review it and one would assume repeat offenders get booted off.
  - nitrogen 5y ago
    The shared-everything vision of the future ignores the extent to which people's cars serve as extensions of their home and storage. Having a bunch of stuff always available when you need it, and knowing that nobody else will stink up the place, means that personally owned cars will remain popular for a very long time.