In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:34:42 -0500:
Hi,
My point is that no chargers would be needed at all, because they are
effectively already built into vehicles.
The only reason chargers are used now, is to convert AC to DC to rapidly charge
the vehicle, which is a
Robin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My point is that no chargers would be needed at all, because they are
> effectively already built into vehicles.
>
I get that. That is why I wrote, "a charger (or discharger)." But even with
a much simpler device, you still need wires under the parking lot, and
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 9 Mar 2023 17:51:31 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
>I think it is not practical to equip most parking places in an office
>parking lot with chargers or simple "dischargers." I think the cost of this
>would far exceed the benefits from distributed generation. But I
Robin wrote:
> Electric cars have DC batteries but AC motors. That means they need to
> have powerful built in inverters. When the car is
> parked, these inverters essentially do nothing, but could be gainfully
> employed to allow charge/discharge of the parked
> vehicle.
My point is that it
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