It’s exactly the opposite and the utilities are allowed to charge extra for it. Look up “demand charge”.
I’ve been wondering how that mechanism works in freezing temps.. door handles do well too?
I thought he was referring to the faster the charge time (at a public charger), the less time someone is taking up a charger, and potentially reducing waiting in line times to charge.
I understand your point but the network has not to date been that expensive to build out. EA has spent a couple of billion, Rivian probably budgets a billion for its 600 sites (estimate someone gave was $150k per fast charger stall, six stalls equals a million dollars). Tesla has spent some and with that money people can go across country reasonably well. Obviously more locations are needed and stalls, getting rid of CHAdeMO and 50KW chargers which are old will help. At least we have a good degree of standardisation and 350Kw being the new standard.
On paper at least, fast chargers with battery buffers seem like a good idea: https://www.greencarreports.com/new...ger-a-model-for-filling-in-fast-charging-gaps
It is a good stop gap measure to bring dcfc to more places, but not viable once ev demand increases significantly.
And if the government won't help with rest areas, Rivian could use these as part of a mobile charing and recovery fleet. Just have to hook up some R1Ts to tow these chargers to all those stranded EVs who ran out of range towing their toys up and down the Ike Gauntlet.
Just drop the middle-man and build a mini modular reactor that fits in the frunk. U-235 is cleaner than the coal and oil used to power a lot of the grid right now ?
We actually have one of those Freewire units in Estes Park, CO and Out of Spec Reviews did a review on it and talked to the site owner about the realities of offering EV car charging in a small mountain town.
Honestly I love this solution for the grid in general. Pepper a bunch of these 1-10mw micro reactors through neighborhoods and decentralize the grid. I didn't know INL was developing them. I recently read an economic feasible study for powering remote Alaska towns and mines using micro reactors instead of shipping in disel. It was a very good fit.
