Dear Grumpy, Battery technology should be irrelevant since the utility buy-back price covers not only the cost of the electricity but also the battery wear (if over time they eat away half of your meager 500 cycles, they will have paid you back half of your LA battery pack), plus a bonus.
You might object that having to replace your battery pack more often is an inconvenience, but I submit it is in fact an advantage: since battery technology advances, at every battery change you get more juice for the same price don't you? Cheers, Dopey 2009/8/17, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]>: > > > Michel Jullian wrote: >> I mean, if it worked as I described below (by "parameter" I meant >> "set", forgive my French ;), would you grumpy vorts (Stephen, Terry >> and Jed) effectively opt out from V2G (while retaining G2V of course) >> by setting the "stop selling" percentage of full charge to 100%, or >> what would be your average setting? (there must be days when you know >> for sure you won't be driving a lot, or even not using your car at >> all) > > Well, our actual current E-car is lead-acid based. Lead acid batteries > have a very limited number of discharge cycles, so we'd never want it to > undergo discharge/charge cycles needlessly, so I don't think we'd ever > set it to less than 100%. > >
