As far as California having excess grid capacity at night, you must have missed all those advisories in August and September telling people in California NOT to charge there EVs at night because the grid could not keep up with people using AC and charging EVs at the same time. Just wait until a few million more EVs are competing for power.
“As far as California having excess grid capacity at night, you must have missed all those advisories in August and September telling people in California NOT to charge there EVs at night because the grid could not keep up with people using AC and charging EVs at the same time. “
Thanks for providing a link that falsifies your post
THE advisory IS FOR 4PM TO 9PM. That leaves 9PM to 4PM with excess capacity.
“They then take over 12 hours to fully recharge”
The F-150 Lightning can accept up to 150 kW, and Ford estimates a 15% to 80% charge time of 41 minutes for Lightning with the extended range battery pack, and 44 minutes for trucks with the standard range pack. The fact that Lightning with the larger battery pack will reach 80% three minutes faster than it will with the smaller standard range battery pack indicates that Ford has implemented a much more aggressive charging curve on the Lightning with the extended range pack. InsideEVs will be conducting a full 0 to 100% DC fast charging test on the Lightning as soon as Ford makes one available to us.
It’s important to note that those DC fast charging time estimates are only valid when charging on a 150 kW (or higher) DC fast charger. There are still a lot of DC fast chargers in service that are limited to 50 kW, and while charging on one of those, Lightning with the standard range pack will take 91 minutes to charge from 15% to 80%.
https://insideevs.com/news/560152/charging-ford-f150-lightning-explained/