[Tilted Irish Kilt]

matt04 :" Which is actually on the lower end of some of today’s chargers, for hours on end while these cars charge.
In reality, these won’t be sporadic uses, but huge demands every night around 6 o’clock or so
when everyone gets home and plugged in their cars "

I wonder what the power drop is when AC/DC gets converted into a battery.
There has to be some drop during the conversion process, due to the resistance of storage into a battery, Rite ?

The reason why power companies converted from DC into AC was that there was power drop along all the transmission lines when there was only DC current.
The power drop increased significantly the further away you were from the generating source.
The power drop occurred due to the resistance in the transmission lines.
The same power drop should occur in the conversion into a battery.

[matt04]

Good point. I can almost guarantee there will be some power loss due to the conversion process, heat, etc. What is the percentage is and how different conditions, say, outside temperature, battery condition, etc. Or I have no idea. 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.