German government expands subsidies for electric cars

Post by mooktakim » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:15 AM UTC

lm28469 wrote: post #149

mooktakim wrote: post #82

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Firstly, when they add these types of charging stations, they will make the grid ready. Secondly, grid has a lot of capacity. Its like motorways, most of the time its under utilised. Only during peak time that it is full capacity. Think of the grid in a similar way. Its mostly under utilised except for peak time. All we need to do is make use of it outside peak time (with batteries) and suddenly we have double or tri…

What about all the people getting from/to work roughly at the same time and plugging their cars. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup for example, and that's just tea pots > All we need to do is make use of it outside peak time Seems like a huge thing to overcome to me.

Post by llampx » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

close04 wrote: post #137

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it adds about 5 miles per hour for model 3. So after charging overnight it would be at least 50 miles of range added. And this is enough for many.

Which is still very slow, as I said above. The fact that you can get a tenth of the battery charge after a full night is not fast by any measure. Consider that our driving habits have been formed around getting hundreds of Km/mi worth of range in minutes. And if a gas pump would only fill 6 liters at a time nobody in the world would say “well it’s still more than most people need”.