suggesting electric vehicle batteries will play a pivotal role in providing power to the grid seemed to ruffle a few feathers.
The Nissan Leaf has capability to export to the grid but unfortunately Australians can’t take advantage of this yet due to some arcane aspects of our standards approval process. Ford offers an option in the United States that allows theirto power a home during a blackout. Meanwhile, Volkswagen has announced it will add vehicle to grid capability as standard across its next generation all-electric vehicle platform.
But let’s take that high side price and assume you feel you can only afford to spare half of your car battery to power your home and grid . This would be roughly 30 kilowatt-hours of capacity. That equates to a cost of $333 per kilowatt-hour compared to the Powerwall’s cost of about $1260 per kilowatt-hour.
Yeah righto. Degrade battery years earlier costing thousands per year. Additional cost in network infrastructure costing thousands per year. Tell ‘em he’s dreaming!
Where would EV get its energy from in the first place? Not from grid?
Every time you flatten the battery, there is gradual degradation, until it becomes useless. How much is a new Tesla Battery around $30000 to replace.
EVs are not a viable means of transport in Australia. At least not for another 50 years.
Simple fact is the world will not have the materials to support everyone having an EV sitting idle. Ride share and using batteries from cars for domestic use are essential if the demand for fossil fuel is to be curtailed.
You guys need to get hardcore. Seriously.
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Green Kumbaying!
3. Do you know Tesla car uses heater to warm the battery up when it is freezing outside to ensure battery efficiency - more energy consumption that have not reflected in LCOE - levelized they said? Not to mention efficiency and excess electricity capacity required.
4. Inside of a car can be really hot in excess to 200C. That's why you don't leave the baby inside the car windows shut. Please do guess the battery efficiency at that temperature?
1. The more you discharge the shorter the lifespan of your car (battery). 2. You drive home from work around 6pm. That is 'peak demand time' where electricity is most expensive. Do you want to discharge at this point in time? The 'deeper' the discharge, the shorter the battery?