>That is not the case here. When you have a thousand cars plug in to charge at the same time, you need enough power to service that load. It seems to me that a

>That is not the case here. When you have a thousand cars plug in to charge at the same time, you need enough power to service that load. It seems to me that an obvious and relatively easy fix is for the charging stations to be more complicated that a simple cable. Since the most common use case is one where a car returns to the same place every day, a station with batteries could sip power throughout the day and then deliver it to the car at any rate necessary while maintaining a constant load on the network.