How EVs will turn night into day
One of the first things you notice after installing solar panels is that it makes more sense to charge your EV during the day, when the sun shines, instead of at night, even though rates are lower then.
The reason is simple, when your panels are generating at full capacity, filling your home or vehicle battery is almost always a better option than dumping that surplus into the grid.
But given the huge shift to EVS in the coming years, it will no longer make sense for electricity utilities to promote off-peak consumption. Electricity regulators in several markets have said that no matter how many EVs are sold, their generation infrastructures can perfectly meet demand even if the predictions came one decade in advance, but common sense tells us that the possibility of spreading the charging process of EVS throughout the day rather than concentrating it at night makes much more sense.
Why the change? Because we’re moving from a productive fabric fundamentally dependent on coal, gas or nuclear, always working and with surpluses at night due to lower demand, to one based on…
