Bear Bussjaeger brings us the latest EV insanity. Even for Kalifornicated, this is insane.
PG&E wants owners of EVs to let PG&E steal buy the power stored in the car's battery. This means if you leave your car plugged in to your home charger on a hot, summer afternoon, when the power grid needs more power, you may discover that your car's battery is dead when you need to go somewhere.
But then you shouldn't be going anywhere surf. Stay at home. Personal ownership of cars - even EVs - is EEEEVIL.
What PG&E is proposing is forcing car owners to be its grid-scale battery plant, instead of investing in actual grid-scale batteries, which saves PG&E lots of money. But to make this work at all (never mind the ineffiencies in generating “renewable” DC power, converting it to AC, conducting it to the charger where it’s converted back to DC and stored in the car batteries; then reversing the whole conversion/transmission process back to the grid), they’d have to mandate that the cars are plugged during peak solar/wind generation periods — even if you need to go somewhere — and then mandate plugging them in again when generation doesn’t meet load demands (brown and black outs)… even if you need to drive somewhere. Just leave the vehicle plugged in and never use it again.
Get out while you can. Things are not going to get better on the Left coast.
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