EdLynchBellI am manning the support desk for holiday cover today, I've long since cleared all the tickets but I'm in a question answering mood. If anyone in #australia has questions about #ev charging hit me up.
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Lora Kolodny@EdLynchBell Have you compared the charging experience in AUS to USA or other countries? What's the biggest difference if any vs. which other place(s)?
@lorakolodny I spent some time in the UK this year and rented a VW ID3 from UFO drive. The key difference is that there are a lot more chargers, but also a lot more cars. User experience is not great, Ionity probably win for having the simplest app to use.
there also isn't a good clearing house for availability information. Not everyone pushes their status to google maps, but this is also true in australia. We (Evie Networks do), many don't.
A lot more AC charging in the UK but that isn't much use to someone on a trip like us.
Thiago Figueiró@EdLynchBell are there downsides to starting/stopping charging an EV throughout the day? For instance, if one wants to take advantage of excess solar power.
@thiagocsf No downsides that I can think of, Lithium-Ion batteries of all types are very good at stopping and starting. Especially at the relatively low power of the average domestic #solar #pv system, it's a very gentle existence for a #battery . There's also almost nothing better that you can do with a spare solar kWh, turning it into #mobility is a very high value application.
(BTW one of my other specialist subjects is batteries, I did a battery manufacturing startup out of grad school and built a battery factory) #emobility
@EdLynchBell thank you! happy to hear this, in particular because we only get paid ~1/4 of what we pay for the same amount of energy exported to/imported from the grid, so charging your #ev is a much better investment. My expectation is that the feed-in-tariffs will continue to fall, so storing will become an even better option over time.