Re: [EVDL] Big-Electric Shocks Big-Oil

2015-10-27 Thread Jukka Järvinen via EV
Until the stored kWh cost is 1 or 2 c. The grid is much more complex system which has idling cost. Home battery with 20yr life expectancy and $100/kWh price tag is pretty hard to fight. The future might hold home appliance infrastucture which has batteries everywhere. Starting from lights and tooth

Re: [EVDL] Big-Electric Shocks Big-Oil

2015-10-27 Thread Michael Ross via EV
Make the grid obsolete? The grid is mighty handy for moving electrons from places of excess to places of scarcity. Any person or event or business that can't make all they need will find the grid valuable. Far better to use an effective infrastructure than say rail cars of batteries? Or big cans

Re: [EVDL] Big-Electric Shocks Big-Oil

2015-10-27 Thread dovepa via EV
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Big Electric Shocks Big Oil California’s new emissions law enlists utilities to help wean drivers off gasoline. [OR so they are selling to the public] It was no idle threat. SB 350 envisions cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below

Re: [EVDL] Big-Electric Shocks Big-Oil

2015-10-27 Thread Ben Goren via EV
On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:57 AM, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > “We really need to have a big push for charging,” Tony > Earley, chief executive officer of PG&E, said in an Oct. 15 appearance at > San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club. “The charging station ought to be part of > our grid infrastructure.” Suck

[EVDL] Big-Electric Shocks Big-Oil

2015-10-27 Thread brucedp5 via EV
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-22/california-s-emissions-law-big-electric-shocks-big-oil Big Electric Shocks Big Oil Mark Hertsgaard October 22, 2015 [images http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iUMZAO.Xj_94/v1/1200x-1.jpg http://assets.bwbx.io/images/i7IByCDPzskw/v1/750x-1.png ] Ca