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Old 04-10-2008, 02:13 AM   #15 (permalink)
Arminius
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
It takes time, and fuel to throttle back power plants, and more time and energy to bring them back up, to me it would make sense to have EV's use a power plan controlled charger, as the daily loads drop, they switch your cars charger on, if you need to charge it in the day time then you pay more.
Or just get your own solar or wind system and charge it your self.
I just read an article about California Edison's electric program or plans to have such devices in homes. The idea is that they would send a signal to the box to begin charging cars at times when it was best, usually at night.
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