Electric vehicle war, is gas soon to be toast?

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Why not just install batteries in the home? I'm not sure the value of draining your EV to put power back into the grid when you can do the same thing with a stationary battery.

Also, maybe we need to tone it down with Level 2 chargers. I was provided a level 1 with my Ioniq 5 and that's all I use at home.

Yeah I was thinking more like moving the energy around and thinking more like finding a discharging station and get free parking/paid for discharging at an establishment. Might even make sense in people bringing power to tourist towns, so as to reduce strain on smaller grids, but in a home in a city... I don't get it unless there's a ton of idle, rarely used EVs.

The battery from car into grid article started sounding like a weird way to describe the electricity company momentarily stopping power provided to your home and using you car to power your home, or something.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Why not just install batteries in the home? I'm not sure the value of draining your EV to put power back into the grid when you can do the same thing with a stationary battery.

Also, maybe we need to tone it down with Level 2 chargers. I was provided a level 1 with my Ioniq 5 and that's all I use at home.

Cause that requires two very large batteries that aren't cheap (car, house) and we already have a big battery sitting there already.

You're already making do with level 1 which kind of illustrates the point, somebody with a level 2, how often do they *really* need a fully charged battery ready to go at 100% charge? Even my PHEV with not a massive battery has been sitting in the garage all week at 100% cause I've been biking all week. Why not use that in the evening and top up it back up off the solar panels during the day?

[Fuzz]

I know charge discharge cycling has improved, but I'm not sure it would be great for longevity if you did it every day. At 50% discharge you get 1300 cycles and lose 20% capacity. That's unde 4 years. I wouldn't want to lose my max capacity for a bit of a reduced bill.
https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/one-simple-trick


Also, level 2 chargers are more efficient, so it will always cost you more to charge with level 1, particularly without a heated charging location in the winter.