You are missing the point. The batteries WILL be there in every EV on the planet. And with just something like 75% penetration, the amount of energy in those batteries is something like 5 times the TOTAL grid capacity of the entire USA (or something like that).
Ignoring the potential of that amount of storage is pretty foolish. I'm just saying that engineers and economists will eventually see the light and the marriage of solar power and all that ALREADY invested battery storage will merge in magical ways. Such as charging with excess solar and driving more at night in those jobs that can easily accommodate the shift. Such as EV mail and package delivery... Bob, WB4APR -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Ross via EV Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 12:35 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ross <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] No, electric cars (still) aren't crashing the grid. Again: Good News: EVs Are Not ... I disagree on the batteries are "there." I doubt we can store the "energy of man" in batteries. And currently we are no where near close to that. It is too much, and we won't be able to use batteries for that kind of massive storage. I think Musk estimated 250 Gigfactories just to do all EVs, let alone other industrial and residential uses. The grid is a super storage medium. If we were more interconnected worldwide, then a series of large solar arrays could do it all. You just need enough of them facing the sun at any given time and then batteries can take their better place as mobile storage. This arrangement beats the heck out of digging all the copper and cobalt needed for stationary storage. On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the LIVE California load page. That page today shows the > famous ... SNIP> > > ... > > "> > The batteries in EV's are there. > "> > ... > > > Bob, WB4APR > > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (19) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180104/976d4596/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
