CB Sites <[email protected]> wrote: I will confirm what @Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> is saying as an > EV owner. 90% of my travel is inner city 30miles or less all stop and > go. Just an overnight charge on a 110v plugin charger and good to go. > I've not seen a noticble change in my electric bill. It's like driving for > free. >
I had one for several months. It was great. With the pandemic, I closed my office, moved home, and gave the car to my daughter. She loves it! H LV <[email protected]> wrote: > What happens when everyone who currently owns a gasoline car buys an > electric car and > is charging overnight? Would it make sense for the utility companies to > continue offering huge discounts for over night charging? > Yes, it will. There is no market for electricity at night. Either they sell it cheap, or they don't sell it at all. It is like running a grocery store and having to throw away produce that no one buys, or flying an airplane with half the seats empty. You never get back the unsold seats. Perhaps the one-cent deep discount in Atlanta will go up in price closer to the daytime cost, but it is not going back to the full rate. There is no way the Texas companies will start charging for nighttime electricity. It costs them more to get rid of it than to give it away for free. They charge a fixed fee for service. They resemble an internet service provider that finds it cheaper to give unlimited bandwidth to most customers than to try to limit it. Nighttime electricity in Texas really is "too cheap to meter" (as predicted by Strauss in 1954). The power companies do not offer these rates as a favor, or out of the goodness of their corporate heart. The Texas power is from wind and nukes, which you cannot turn off easily. I guess you can feather the wind turbines . . . Anyway, they make more money giving away electricity and collecting a monthly fee. A business model like an ISP, or NetFlix.
