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I actually published a paper on your last point many years ago. To me it's obvious that we need to use electric car batteries as storage for the grid. The infra
by sleavey 5y ago
I actually published a paper on your last point many years ago. To me it's obvious that we need to use electric car batteries as storage for the grid. The infrastructure is already there. The software in the car should allow the user to specify their preference for how full to keep the battery at all times, and when they next plan to drive far, and the car can decide how it gets its battery charge to the required level in the available time. Adding in price incentives to use electricity when it's cheapest (when there's most supply vs demand) makes it even more attractive.
- mepiethree 5y agoNice! Would love to read your paper :) I worked on this project, which is why I am all over this comment section :) https://its.berkeley.edu/news/new-tsrc-report-shows-benefits-optimizing-ev-charging https://its.berkeley.edu/news/new-tsrc-report-shows-benefits...
- sleavey 5y agohttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6609120 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6609120 We were a bunch of physicists having fun. The impact of using just laptops for demand side response will be negligible but the idea is that all battery equipped, mains connected devices are capable of responding to grid supply/demand changes by adding or removing load only needing simple electronics (we used an Arduino Uno).
- zimpenfish 5y ago> To me it's obvious that we need to use electric car batteries as storage for the grid. Like a Powerwall for your solar panels but using the car instead of the battery? That'd make good sense for places like the UK where there's currently no Powerwall equivalent (that I know of.)
- mepiethree 5y agoYep! Sunrun (largest residential solar company in the US) has partnered with Ford to make their new electric pickups into “power walls” in this way