CNN on battery day:
Volkswagen is going huge in batteries to slash the price of electric cars
The company sold 231,600 battery electric vehicles in 2020 — less than half the number of sales Tesla made, but an increase of 214% on the previous year.
And this is good for those of us with solar PV: From 2022,Volkswagen's electric vehicles will also support technology that allows them to connect to private, commercial and public energy systems. "Electric vehicles will become mobile power banks," Diess said.
I wonder if there will be a new group of people who help pay for their car by power shifting, charge at night for the super cheap rate, sell back to the grid during peak and make $. In an expensive power state like CA or HI if you did that with 50kwh per day and the rate difference day/night is 0.30/kwh, that computes to you could make $450 a month! VW would probably not like it.
Volkswagen is going huge in batteries to slash the price of electric cars
The company sold 231,600 battery electric vehicles in 2020 — less than half the number of sales Tesla made, but an increase of 214% on the previous year.
And this is good for those of us with solar PV: From 2022,Volkswagen's electric vehicles will also support technology that allows them to connect to private, commercial and public energy systems. "Electric vehicles will become mobile power banks," Diess said.
I wonder if there will be a new group of people who help pay for their car by power shifting, charge at night for the super cheap rate, sell back to the grid during peak and make $. In an expensive power state like CA or HI if you did that with 50kwh per day and the rate difference day/night is 0.30/kwh, that computes to you could make $450 a month! VW would probably not like it.