Originally Posted by blackberry
I know recharging at night, all night is what is being discussed but years ago I ran 12th scale electric RC cars and found you could rapid charge the nicads. It seems we charged for 15 minutes to get an 8 minute run. The worry at that time was to much heat reduced the life of the batteries, so we were careful how fast we recharged. I'm guessing the real delima is using off hours to store unused and wasted energy and not putting a tax on the system during the day to create those brown out situations in Calif.
Sounds good, in theory at least.
S California will get the most attention with the electric car. Most folks and businesses "catch up" their cooling at night because the brown outs are usully during the day, late afternoon.
The grid is still operating at capacity well into the night, so to prevent overload at ten PM one would have to delay pluging up untill after midnight.
Think that will work?
Have you seen the lights and activity in S. Ca after dark. Not much energy conservation going on. La La Land mentality vrs Real World.
No matter what, those folks have got to change their lifestyle, or their politics, to make it work.
roadster with a stick.