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.
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.