BYD announces 1000V battery, 5 min to charge

[Duke_239]

You guys would rather argue than admit you are confused about two-pole circuit breakers. Three circuits at 240 volts requires three, two-pole circuit breakers. To a layman, that looks like six circuit breakers. I have a gas tankless water heater, way better than any electric solution.

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[Bigisland Guy]

Ok, so where is all this nuclear power suppose to come from?
Right now drawing 40 amps level 2 is a stress on our grid here locally with approx 6 homes on a single transformer.


Agreed, we have a property with 17 homes and two underground transformers on the street. The street has 13 EV's (11 Tesla's, 1 Ford, 1 Chevy) during the summer months with AC's running and cars charging, in the after work hours you can hear the transformers running through the evenings.

 

[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

Ok, so where is all this nuclear power suppose to come from?
Right now drawing 40 amps level 2 is a stress on our grid here locally with approx 6 homes on a single transformer.


Agreed, we have a property with 17 homes and two underground transformers on the street. The street has 13 EV's (11 Tesla's, 1 Ford, 1 Chevy) during the summer months with AC's running and cars charging, in the after work hours you can hear the transformers running through the evenings.

is the power lower cost after some late hour? - ie Time of Use (ToU rates) that would incentivize the EV's to charge say 11pm - 7am when most of the other loads are off, or at lower demand (even A/C is less at night than during the day, and is a cycling load while the EV's are a steady constant load.

SoCal is kinda famous for their high cost of electricity, lower overnight rates would be the ticket to get the EV's to shift to later hours of the day.

 

[Bigisland Guy]

is the power lower cost after some late hour? - ie Time of Use (ToU rates) that would incentivize the EV's to charge say 11pm - 7am when most of the other loads are off, or at lower demand (even A/C is less at night than during the day, and is a cycling load while the EV's are a steady constant load.


SCE prime discount plan for EV's is about 30 cents between 9pm and 4pm and 60 cent from 4pm to 9pm. There are other schemes that SCE has but this one is one of their better deals for EV charging.

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