" we would usually be able to choose when they are charged".. but certainly the other 99% of the time. So they will often be able to use off-peak base load power that would otherwise be wasted, in addition to making effective use of intermittent renewables."
Do we have a world of every car park has a charge point? Or do we charge when home..if so, solar power is zero at night if masses charging when at home at night.
Off peak base power comes from where? How long to you think off peak will be'off peak'when the power demand ramps up to charge the populaces cars?
Don't tell me your telsa batteries are going to run your house hold to cook tea, run the air conditioner& charge the car. Then the next recharge the battery from your 3 to 5 kWh solar power panels the next day?
Maybe if we all covered our house in Telsa roof tiles & had 50 Kw solar to charge our Bank of 10 Telsa Batteries we can then..........hang on why is Elon back in the middle of the solution to the problem we didn't have?
The beauty of this arrangement is once we are on the merry go round we will need to replace batteries every 10 years & panels 20 years & converters once a decade (have had 2 SMA 5 kW inverters fail in 7 years now..phhht German tech ), as large base power no longer in place..Look at Sth Aust.....Now imagine if every state did what they did. Where is the power coming from?
