[HN Gopher] UK Grid to Drain Electric Car Batteries During High ...
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UK Grid to Drain Electric Car Batteries During High Demand
Author : crocodiletears
Score : 14 points
Date : 2022-02-11 20:24 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.telegraph.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.telegraph.co.uk)
| blitzar wrote:
| _To incentivise car owners to plug in, participants in the
| Octopus trial are being paid a generous sum of 15p per kilowatt
| hour for the electricity they send to the grid_
|
| _On the 11th February 2022, the current Octopus Energy fixed
| 12-month tariff is 37.29p per kWh for electricity_
|
| "generous sum" indeed - they get to sell you electricity at
| 37.29p to fill up your battery, buy it back for 15p and sell to
| you again an hour or so later for 37.29p - repeat and rinse
| overnight and you have infinity pence.
| Symbiote wrote:
| The Octopus EV tariff charges 7.5p/kWh at night
| blitzar wrote:
| Good point well made - my mistake.
|
| Rinse and repeat all day instead of all night!
| crocodiletears wrote:
| https://archive.fo/5au8i
| anfilt wrote:
| Unless batteries get easier to change in an EV, I am not sure
| that this is a good idea. It's just gonna put extra cycles on the
| battery chemistry which is finite to begin with.
| ianai wrote:
| Especially since they're not paying you what they charged you
| for that energy. I'd prefer they just charge you for the net
| energy you take out (charge-discharge), at least. It's more of
| a voluntary additional outlay seemingly. I think I'd just be
| sure to only charge my car during off-peak hours. Keep it
| disconnected the rest of the time. (Also why, as someone who
| lives where it's sunny probably 360 days per year, I'd like an
| EV with solar panels on it. It won't be much, but maybe enough
| to keep things conditioned.)
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