▲ | natmaka 3 days ago | |||||||
A typical car battery stores 60 kWh (the average capacity of models is increasing), so, charged during the day using inexpensive renewable electricity (particularly solar), it can power a household during one of the rare winter nights with insufficient wind. Case in point: France. A household consumes an average of 14 kWh of electricity per day. The capacity of electric cars will exceed 500 GWh before 2035 and 2000 GWh between 2040 and 2050. Trucks, utility vehicles, and stationary batteries (domestic and industrial) will add to this. Batteries from retired vehicles will increasingly be converted into static batteries before being recycled (see "Redwood Materials" in the US). In California, when the sun is at its peak (midday), solar power produces up to three-quarters of the electricity. Batteries are charged in the afternoon, when solar electricity is cheap, and released in the evening, when Californians return home. At their peak consumption, around 8 p.m., batteries can supply up to 30% of the state's electricity. | ||||||||
▲ | tonyarkles 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Just to clarify for anyone who's confused... that's an EV battery, not the 12V lead-acid that's in an ICE vehicle. | ||||||||
▲ | ponector 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
>> A household consumes an average of 14 kWh of electricity per day. If there is a motivation, consumed amount for particular cloudy day could be 1\4 easily. Simply do the laundry, other energy intensive task next day. | ||||||||
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