> Solar alone doesn't fully mitigate the emissions of EVs > unless you charge the EV when the sun is shining.
A common misunderstanding of net metering. It doesn't matter when the solar owner charges, as long as he has produced enough solar banked into the grid to meet that load later on. The solar panels over produce say 16 kWh during the day which probably goes as far as a few neighbor houses and replacing their dirty grid power. So the solar owner has reduced 16kWh of carbon. When she charges at night, she draws 16 kWh of carbon electricity from the grid for a NET of zero carbon for her car. Thus, she has fully charged on 100% clean sun power, since her arrays produced 16kWh of clean power and she used 16kWh for her EV. > If everybody gets an EV, and everybody charges it at night, > that's a lot of nighttime emissions. Not if those same people put up say 12 solar panels and produced into the grid during the day what they need at night. > If you charge at night, and [cant put up solar panels], > consider signing up for green power... Amen to that. Just 12 solar panels can provide free 40 miles daily EV travel forever on sunshine and that is the national average mileage. Talk about energy independence.! Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ 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)
