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Please talk to any energy technician working on national grid. We have troubles generating enough power to not force blackouts in EU and we talk about introduc
by pojzon 4y ago
Please talk to any energy technician working on national grid.
We have troubles generating enough power to not force blackouts in EU and we talk about introducing hundreds of millions of EVs / to every household.
Currently it all works only because they are a novelity.
- jupp0r 4y agoBuild wind, solar and grid batteries, then. Nothing magically hard about it. The grid itself will need updates too.
- sangnoir 4y ago> EVs are excellent grid batteries, with the incentives.
- jupp0r 4y agoExcellent point, although I haven't seen this actually be done in practice either at grid scale or household scale. Do current EV's charging electronics support this use case?
- ericd 4y agoTeslas aren’t currently bidirectional, some of the new Fords are, unsure about others.
- ciceryadam 4y agoKias/Hyundais are as well.
- ericd 4y agoI think you all can figure it out, it’s not a huge percentage increase vs people’s normal usage, and there’s plenty of time to incrementally improve - battery production is currently a pretty hard bottleneck on the production rate.
- _ea1k 4y ago> Currently it all works only because they are a novelity. EVs are certainly not only a novelty in the EU right now.