The author of this article knows nothing about the energy system. This is a great idea.
The main issue with power is we need to build everything for peak usage at 7pm. Every other time of day there is vast wastage.
Imagine if your EV can buy $10 of cheap electricity over night, and sell it for $20 once you get home each evening.
It makes having a battery pack in your garage very profitable.
The batteries already have a shorter life than the rest of the car. If the batteries were cheaply available, the state or power companies could buy their own batteries. Since they feel the need to draft your car to fight the war on carbon, it seems pretty clear that this is not cost effective.
Until the extra cycles of the battery render it useless.
>Imagine if your EV can buy $10 of cheap electricity over night, and sell it for $20 once you get home each evening.
It makes having a battery pack in your garage very profitable.<
Who is going to pay you for the electricity? The power company, of course. Where is the power company going to get the money? By raising rates, of course.
You are paying yourself for the inconvenience.
Will you feel better or worse when you go to the garage to take your wife to her surgery appointment 100 miles away....only to find you have a mere 50 miles of charge left?
EC