CloneEngineer t1_j1l2uu5 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 6:11 AM

Reply to comment by infinitenothing in New Nio 500 kW ultra-fast Power Charger 3.0 can charge a car from 10-80% in only 12 minutes by Surur

What's really.interesting - if you think about the California duck.curve - peak pricing is likely overnight and midday prices on a sunny day should be very low as there could be an excess of renewable power.

Having lots of battery storage produces interesting electrical arbitrage opportunities.

infinitenothing t1_j1napv1 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 8:36 PM

Car batteries also serve as a possible arbitrage opportunities. You could show the user real time pricing on their dash and maybe they'll stop in.

CloneEngineer t1_j1ngnpa wrote on December 25, 2022 at 9:22 PM

Very true. I think the big time arbitrage options are for vehicles that don't operate much. School buses Tractors / agricultural vehicles Delivery trucks Rental cars / fleet vehicles.

Just think about using school buses to power the grid. They generally don't operate at peak demand (6p in the summer). They are already distributed geographically and would have large batteries.

Most combines only operate 1x per year.

Suddenly these vehicles have an entire new use case.