[LINK] Electric Vehicles

[Tom Worthington]

On 18/6/21 12:05 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> GM escalates the electric vehicle arms race By Ben Klayman  June 17,
> 2021 ...

But how are all these vehicles going to get charged and what effect will 
it have on the grid?

If done badly, we will have extension cables running across footpaths 
and blackouts when everyone plugs in.

If done well, the electric vehicles could help store renewable energy 
from, and for, the grid.

That will require some hardware engineering, some software and a lot of 
social engineering, to get people to plug in at the right time.

The combination of household or neighborhood batteries and car charging 
could well. On the wall of your garage, on in a pillar in the street, 
would be a battery, with a couple of car charging sockets. The battery 
could quickly charge cars at peak times, or if your car has power to 
spare, it could supply the grid. 
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2021/04/will-electric-ute-save-grid.html


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