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Originally Posted by GGG
It’s a 10 - 1 difference in terms of wattage.
I think it would be interesting if the grid could shut off certain chargers as cars like Teslas are connected. Just send out a conserve power command and you disable charging during key periods.
You could significantly reduce peak load requirements like that. Or even better is if you could switch them into supply mode to the grid. 40kWh x 1000,000 cars would be 40,000 mWh or about 4 hours of full grid capacity or 40 hrs of 10% top up. Lots of issues with it and even at peak pricing that 40kWh was only worth $40 so maybe not enough incentive but in future it could be an interesting back up source.
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I think the ultimate solution includes distributed generation and storage (e.g. home solar and EVs) all managed grid-wide to optimize capacity and cost.