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Nightly charging, to which wide adoption of EV leads, smoothens the day/night load cycle and thus improves the business of power generation and delivery which i
by trhway 4y ago
Nightly charging, to which wide adoption of EV leads, smoothens the day/night load cycle and thus improves the business of power generation and delivery which is better for everyone.
Given how cheap the batteries already, i think the EV adoption would be growing exponentially and is slowed only by the manufacturers' capacities.
- theshrike79 4y agoPair this with Vehicle to grid/home/load -features all plugged in EVs can be used to balance the load in the grid. There's a billion dollar idea for a startup right there. Let the electricity company use a percentage of your battery when you don't need it - for a price.
- sliken 4y agoNot sure that's worth it. Cooling batteries is tricky, and cars are designed for high loads with high airflow. Draining a car when it's in a hot garage isn't going to be battery friendly. Adding extra cooling, DC -> AC inverter, and related infrastructure is going to cost weight, space, and money. Not sure it's worth the wear and tear for peak clipping, especially since charging off peak is a form of peak clipping. Instead of having the grid pay to wear down EV batteries, seems like there's better places to put that money that will have more benefits. Obvious choices being solar, wind, grid scale batteries, incentives for covering parking lots with solar panels, etc.