The crucial point though is the charging/discharging inverter (converter) that I purpose built (printed circuits boards) and a change to the car firmware. Without it the car will reject the battery, your acceleration would be less and it also would not last the same amount of discharge cycles. My battery electronics works fine for cars, trucks, boats, house and neighborhood batteries (up to 6mW per shipping container).
We build entire smart grids around the batteries, solar panels and tiny houses. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...
It is the same with the article we are commenting on here: if people just listen to the statistics, the simulations and the actual market developments they would see that 100% solar+battery is the cheapest energy.
The simple message is Solar is by far the cheapest energy: below 1 dollar cent per kWh and that will fall a lot more in the next decade until we get to 'a squanderable abundance of free and clean energy' as Bob Metcalf puts it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfsqdpHVFU Batteries still double the cost of that solar but these prices are falling rapidly too. It is already cheaper to have solar nearby than transmit it over a distance of a few miles.
More in my earlier comments weeks and months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=morphle
Also: when we last spoke you were talking about energy storage solutions. How has that progressed recently?
1 kWh Wind, or Hydro, Thermal and other renewables do not go down as much in cost price because they have mechanical or chemical components that do not last as long as solar cells and need maintenance and repair.
We keep the cost low by group buying in bulk at wholesale prices (a shipping container with 770 panels for 20-30 houses) with our coop instead of premium installer prices by the electrotechnical or building companies. If you let our Fiberhood coöperative in the US install your solar, batteries, tiny house or eCamper you do not pay these high tariffs, we have enough panels pre-tariff. So you still can hit 1 cent per kWh but only if you get the decent installers and sellers.
My message is that to reach 1 cent per kWh we need to solar electrify all our infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEOPx2X-EtE
Also Trump doubling solar panel prices with tarifs and shutting down subsidies is wrong, it makes it much more expensive. Add an oil third world war however does help, we sold double solar, batteries and evs in the last month.
Except that we have raw data there? The only question is how fast it grows, but since we're transitioning that's mostly a question of how fast you decommission fossil plants.
Germany did jumpstart their market successfully but that was in a wildly different time. Want to talk about what a typical KWp of installed solar cost at the time?
Hindsight....
Like in the camper van scenario, if we include winter heating and transportation? Oh boy.
It’s getting better, but if we’re really honest very far from the truth
We need mundane home DC solutions.
For regular homes, it just means less savings.
It’s the big issue in Germany for instance - it’s all fun and games until Winter.
However, when you're off grid, underestimating capacity means your SOL and need to buy a generator and burn fuel on-site.