Here’s one scenario: Go to work with a partial charge, charge during the day using excess solar production when electricity is super cheap, drive home fully charged, sell some power to the grid during peak donestic use hours, keep enough to safely get back to work, repeat.
Comment on EVs are one step closer to becoming roaming grid batteries
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What is the use case for an EV to provide power to the grid?
meyotch@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
eksb@programming.dev 4 months ago
The use case (as opposed to public transit and stationary grid batteries) is that rich people get to feel good about themselves while still being subsidized by and separated from the working class.
silence7@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
The highest few hours of peak demand each year. It can make sense to use relatively expensive storage for that because you’re using it relatively infrequently.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Peak times vs. off peak.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This makes sense to me.
Charge car overnight offpeak costs, power house during peak hours