On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 4:52 PM Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > There is no market currently, but if more and more electricity is being demanded at night wouldn't that create a market? Harry > 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. > >
