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General Car Chat / Re: The Law of Unintended Consequences
« on: 29 June 2022, 05:12:34 »Many people on this forum are here because they don't buy into the 'take it to the dealer a don't ask questions ' ethos.In an alternative universe the EVs are plugged into home chargers whenever they are not being driven.That leftie thinking is great, but what happens when you go to use the car and find out there's no sparkles left because you sold it all back to the grid
The home/car owner uses their smart electricity meter to play the electricity markets by charging when the electricity is cheap and feeding into the grid when prices rise.
Joking aside, you know this is when a parent/child gets rushed to hospital, or you oversleep because the bedside alarm didn't reset following the forced power cut.
Tesla & Apple both follow the 'pay up and don't bother your pretty little head with stuff you don't understand ' approach which is why I won't own one unless/until they open up and give the user control (& right to repair). I wouldn't characterise Tesla or Apple as left wing BTW.
For the EV owners to buy into automatic peak lopping the providers are going to have to give the owners the controls they need. Eg by setting a minimum amount of charge to leave in the battery at all times and by setting some economic criteria (charge below x pence per unit, discharge above y pence per unit)