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With typical EV workloads you'd only do this type of fast charging on a roadtrip or similar. The remaining time you'd be charging at home at much lower rates.
by nharada 4y ago
With typical EV workloads you'd only do this type of fast charging on a roadtrip or similar. The remaining time you'd be charging at home at much lower rates.
Not to say there aren't people who only charge at superchargers, but as L2 availability increases I imagine that will be less and less common.
- tsimionescu 4y agoMost people live in apartment buildings, with tens of cars around the same building. I doubt at-home charging will be easy to scale - at the very least this would require major grid redesigns in most cities.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoputting 120 volt chargers in is really easy (you just need an outlet and a cable).
- tsimionescu 4y agoHow do you do that from the 8th floor? And will the power grid work well once 30 cars are charging each night from the same grid?
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agopeople don't generally park their cars on the 8th floor. They park them in a parking lot, so that's where you would put the outlets. Power grids will have to expand to deal with the excess demand, but the transition to electric vehicles is happening slowly, so there's plenty of time to do so. Also, since electric vehichles are basically just giant batteries, they pair very well with solar and wind power. As solar power makes up a larger percentage of total power generation, it will become much cheaper to charge vehicles during the day when most of them are sitting in office parking lots. This will significantly reduce the "duck curve" problem, and make solar power even more effective than it currently is.