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To: matt04
matt04 : (power loss to battery storage) " However, even if If it’s only one or 2% Once you factor in tens of thousands of cars it’s going to be a very large number."

Exactly true when you are charging up tens of thousands of vehicles, especially as you pointed out, when people get home at 6:00 PM, immediately recharge their vehicle, while preparing meals .
That would be a significant power draw between the hours of 5 PM through 7:30 PM ;
I'm not sure the grid could handle the evening surge with all the home appliances operating at the same time.
The only realistic alternative would be to have separate electric meters for home appliance usage, and recharging stations on a timer to charge up during 'off peak' hours.

115 posted on 06/23/2021 4:57:14 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Even if you say had EVs begin charging at 9:30 once the peak evening load of cooking, clothes washing, etc. has passed you are just gonna create a new peak load later. These hours of the day this is usually little winds and no sun, so all these EVs will be charged with eeeeevil coal, natural gas or nuclear. Hahaha.


117 posted on 06/23/2021 12:43:44 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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