EVs are parked 95% of the time. If it's parked, it can be charged. Work places also have electricity.
reply>Work places also have electricity.
replyOnly households can access the free electricity window. If you're not on a free plan you can get reduced rates during the solar peak window but business accounts aren't allowed to access those either.
but you're assuming that work provides parking. Its not a given, plus whats in it for the drivers?
replyplug my car in, it might be full, it might be empty, either way its racking up the charge cycles for no direct benefit for me.
Batteries on a house makes a better sell for customers, and also targets the problem of both over supply and over consumption at source.
Workplaces (and other locations) could offer free/reduced-cost charging, with the caveat that V2L is required. They could guarantee that the vehicle will be at a certain charge level at a designated time, and that the vehicle will never go below a threshold (in case an unanticipated trip is required).
replyThe boss may get a free charge, but no one else will…
replyDepends. residential fleets v commercial fleets. different behaviours.
replyEven most residential batts that get plugged in when they get home typically have SOC >40% (depending on jurisidiction).
surely its possible to invent a "plug in road" system, then cars could charge (at least on highways etc) even when driving. I had this thought ages back when EVs first came out, to tackle the problem of long charge times when doing cross country road trips.
replyWe could call it: Train!
replyYou could run a line overhead on pylons and put a pick up on a pole on the cars.
replyA smaller version of these things: https://sandtoft.org/wp/
You could combine the best of dodgem cars with drone nets by encasing all the highways in electrified wiring.
replySome people drive as if they're in dodgem cars as it is.
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replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_...
replyIt already exists and works so, not that crazy
It's much more difficult when the ownership of the vehicles isn't centralized.
replyI imagine this would make road repair even more common, intensive, and disruptive than it already is?
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