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I think you're thinking too large scale. Think of replacing a peaker plant that might only be in operation for an hour by having a city full of cars each supply
by jaggederest 5y ago
I think you're thinking too large scale. Think of replacing a peaker plant that might only be in operation for an hour by having a city full of cars each supply 100w for that hour. It's 1/800th of a tesla battery, but it replaces $500 worth of peaking plant usage.
- foobarbecue 5y agoYep that makes sense. That's one of the situations I was referring to when I said: > let me be clear that I think using car batteries to time-shift load on the power grid makes some sense Note of course that you could probably achieve something similar by just having teslas be smart enough to stop charging during peak times if the owner OKs it instead of actually discharging full ones.