I still wonder who came up with the charge your car during the day / use it as a batterie. I don’t have the luxury’s of owning two EVs that I can charge and use at the same time. If my car stand unused at home so I can charge it would mean I use it during the night? I understand that there could be useage pattern where someone works from home once or twice a week and waits with the charge during these peek hours. But the generalization of just charge your car during the day is weird.

Unless that also counts when the car could charge for free at the workplace of course.

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testing22321 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

A few things.

Obviously it still works great on the weekend, or whatever days you’re not working to charge the EV at home for free.

Given all power is free, why wouldn’t you charge the EV at work in the middle of the day? Even if you pay to have the charger installed it will pay back quickly.

It’s not going to happen overnight, but with literally free electricity things will change quickly, and even huge parking structures or lots will have a stack of chargers that are free or very close to it.

	▲	larusso 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t know how the charging infrastructure in Australia is. But it’s of course cool that they have excess energy enough.

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shushpanchik 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

6 free hours during weekend with 7kW home charger give you 42kWh, that's ~200km per week free. That's not nothing.

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jeffbee 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Everything about the push to convert the whole fleet to EVs falls apart under even the slightest rational scrutiny.

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bdcravens 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

"the push to convert the whole fleet"

Is that anything like the "_ agenda being pushed" I keep hearing about, but can't seem to see anywhere?

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jeffbee 3 days ago | parent [-]

Well, to me the EV conversion push, which undeniably exists and has many government policies supporting it, does represent an agenda, and that agenda is "Cars Über Alles". The obviously more practical approach to the problem is to support the conversion of transportation demand to less energy-intensive modes such as trains, buses, bicycles, and feet. It isn't very practical to say we're all going to have an EV and we'll have plenty of megawatt-scale chargers for everyone.

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testing22321 3 days ago | parent [-]

Why not?

We extract, refine, transport, store and pump billions of litres of toxic chemicals everyday to power our cars now.

We could do the same with electricity if we wanted to, and use a fraction of the energy.

	▲	jeffbee 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The liquid fuel distribution system is simply far more space-efficient than any known means of EV charging. The liquid fuel scheme works because the energy flux through the pump is obscene. EVs don't have an answer to this problem.

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recursive 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it falling apart right now? It seems the poster has forgotten that EVs can be charged at home but also away from home. They mention that in the last paragraph, but it kind of seems to undermine the whole premise that this is a problem.

	▲	jeffbee 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, it is in the process of disintegrating. The main symptom is the transformer shortage.