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> Selling your surplus ev power to grid is a huge waste, charging your neighbours car is a better use. Electricity is fungible (ignoring transmission losses),
by dehrmann 2y ago
> Selling your surplus ev power to grid is a huge waste, charging your neighbours car is a better use.
Electricity is fungible (ignoring transmission losses), so what's the difference?
- victorbjorklund 2y agotaxes and fees. But yea it would not be allowed on a real scale without new taxes and fees and then that benefit is removed.
- Etheryte 2y agoI think transmission losses are exactly the point? Locally, the losses are practically zero, the further you need to push it, the more significant various losses become. If you could line up someone's production to someone else nearby who needs to consume, as a whole the system would incur considerably less losses, no?
- dehrmann 2y agoUS grid transmission losses are estimated to be 5%. You'd come out ahead pretty quickly if your neighbors can't use your surplus.
- marcosdumay 2y ago> I think transmission losses are exactly the point? That can't be, your panel is charging up your neighbor's car in exactly the same way independently of you being connected to outside of your neighborhood.