We have excess electric power generating capacity at night. Perfect time to recharge electric cars.
They’ll call us the “midnight juicers”
Makes sense to me.
exactly. This will be good for the electric companies. They can run their units at baseload and they will be more efficient.
In some regions of the country, yes we do have excess generation capacity.
What we don’t have is the distribution infrastructure, especially at the neighborhood level. There are still MANY neighborhoods in the US with five or six houses connected to a single 25kVA pole pig. If only half of those houses get electric cars, the power company will need to put up another two pole pigs.