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load balancing doesnt work like that. the draw on a high throughput gas station is hundreds of megawatts for hours. Are you proposing 100MWh batteries installed

by ouid 3y ago

load balancing doesnt work like that. the draw on a high throughput gas station is hundreds of megawatts for hours. Are you proposing 100MWh batteries installed at charging stations? Sure people can top up their cars overnight, but what about people who street park? Charging a tesla battery to full overnight (16hr) is still 5kW. On the other hand in the world where gas is very expensive, and you have a PHEV, you can pkug in most of the time and solve almost all of your gasoline demand, while still being able to fill your car at 20MW in critical situations

PuffinBlue 3y ago
> the draw on a high throughput gas station is hundreds of megawatts for hours. Did you watch the video? For a 36 charger station they’re using a 6Mw battery. It works because the assumption that draw from the chargers is constant is wrong. > What about people who street park? They can go to the charger station. And all the people who don’t need to because they do it at home…don’t go to the charger station. Reducing demand even further. > Charging a tesla battery to full overnight Do you use your entire gas tank everyday? Because 90+% of vehicle users don’t. So there’s no need to pull that much power, again reducing peak demand and spreading out the load. The things you are highlighting are rooted in fear, not reality. The reality is that ev’s work without the downsides of PHEV. And i say that as a ICE owner jealous of the ease of use, lower maintenance and savings being made by friends with ev’s.