"Option 2, however, is where it gets interesting. A Nissan LEAF battery with 80% of its capacity remaining still can hold about 19 kWh; ....
Residential applications are what worry utility companies, though. As reported by Forbes in a similar article, the average US household uses 29.7 kWh per day; a house wishing to go off the grid could reasonably do so in much of the country with solar panels, some efficiency measures, and a battery pack made with the modules of one and a half LEAF batteries." I for one am ready to have my own 'power company'. What's to keep individuals from having their own home internal power supply (solar panels) and storage system (old Leaf batteries). One could stay connected to the grid, never adding power to the grid, but only drawing power in the off chance that the home storage runs short? -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-At-what-range-does-your-Leaf-no-longer-fulfill-its-purpose-tp4668969p4668970.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
