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Long story short: BEVs was designed with a specific target, even if no one formally state that in such crude terms: to keep a grid with significant amount of i
by kkfx 4y ago
Long story short:
BEVs was designed with a specific target, even if no one formally state that in such crude terms: to keep a grid with significant amount of intermittent sources (like p.v. and eolic) we need something fast enough to compensate their peaks and drops, witch happen to be batteries. They are too expensive respect of their limited service life so better offload such costs to private Citizens to keep company profit. Private cars are actually batteries on wheel, cars are already not that cheap stuff, people do not use them for more than 8-10 years anyway, due to limited range they got plugged in frequently like when you stop traveling anywhere.
The above paragraph was initial theory. But while people have bought a bit p.v. because it's already interesting in vast areas of the world far less interest happen for EVs and since many people even if casually do travel for longer range they need quick charging witch means a hyper big peak loads for the grid.
EVs adoption was forced with laws (emission limits, travel limits in cities etc) and got pushed by soon to happen frequent blackouts, for some reasons people decide to buy them en masse recently but there is still NO SOLUTION for the grid: actual p.v./eolic volume is grown, but far less than the skyrocketed energy demand, quick charge need to be more widespread, fast (3-phase 7.3kW / 22kW) chargers need to be FAR more widespread etc so grid operators, aka private scammers are still in trouble...