[MortMan]

"We were able to show that with less home charging and more daytime charging, the Western U.S. would need less generating capacity and storage, and it would not waste as much solar and wind power," said Powell, mechanical engineering Ph.D. '22.

So, charge during peak usage hours and you need less generation resources? Huh?

[BenLurkin]

Tell us what kind of cars to buy. Tell us how to fuel them. Tell us when to fuel them.

[oil_dude]

Just gimme gasoline.

[chuck allen]

Why the hell do employers have to install chargers at their businesses? That’s insane, like all the rest of this EV nonsense. I’m sure TexasGator will be along shortly to tell us all how to think about this. :(

[tlozo]

Right, charge your vehicle during the day, when it’s inconvenient. Sounds great

[catnipman]

“Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go, study finds”

hmmm ... because they just figured out that the sun doesn’t shine at night?

[Travis McGee]

Note that it takes 8-12 hours to charge a Tesla 3 at home, or 1/2 hour at a 120Kw Supercharger station, or an hour at a 50kW station.....but using the fast chargers will shorten the life of the batteries, which will cost more to replace than a used Tesla with bad batteries is worth. IOW, a Tesla with toasted batteries is basically "totaled" for cost.

Ain't no way of getting around physics. No miracle cures yet anticipated.

[central_va]

Over a hundred years ago the ultra superior ICE powered car crushed the steam and EV competition and both of those exotics were dead by the time WWI started.

[Bullish]

The left has so mismanaged everything that we’ll soon have no power, no water and no food. Then they’ll blame everyone and everything but themselves.

[moovova]

"Bus and car on fire after a very serious accident"

[logi_cal869]

Why do I sense that workplace charging station mandates will be foisted upon employers and additional inflation pressures placed upon consumers for this manufactured climate crisis???

[Freedumb]

Maybe the headline should read that if we are moving to an EV car model, then generating the power during the daytime (talking about you solar) when people are not charging their cars is not the way to go.

[BBQToadRibs2]

[mikey_hates_everything]

Right, only charge during the day at home and you’ll never have time to drive it. Green!

[I want the USA back]

It’s gonna be a disaster. When all the gas-powered cars are gone and everybody plugs in their EV at night, when the Sun is not shining on the solar panels.

There will be severe restrictions on time/quantity/duration of charging. It will be a nightmare.

Compounding this is the fact that batteries lose power gradually when they are not in use. The charge leaks away. So if you park your EV for a month and go on vacation, it will have lost a portion of the power that you have already paid for.

All predictable, and the public is totally unaware of it.

[Alberta's Child]

This whole discussion demonstrates the idiocy of widespread EV adoption.

People aren’t going to limit the times and places where they charge their cars. They’re going to have an expectation that their cars can be charged any time and at any place where it is parked for several hours at a time.

[Midwesterner53]

I will continue to recharge my car at the gas station in about 5 minutes.

[kiryandil]

Actually, one thing to explore is "what if I have to make a quick trip" and the impact that would have on the batteries.

None? Some?

I don't like to interrupt batteries while they're charging.

[Auntie Dem]

Why don’t these CA geniuses just require all EV’s to have solar panel hoods, roofs, and trunks? Maybe even some roof mounted wind turbines that would solve all their problems. /sarc

[qaz123]

Seems like a pretty simple solution.

You have an EV and you hook it up to the grid at night, pay a surcharge. Extra $200 a month

OR

At purchase, an attestation that they’re buying the EV for climate change then they sign a document that they have to convert their homes, 100%, to solar in 18 months and that is the only way they can charge their toy cars. If they fail to do that, $1000 a month climate change fine