The professor said that although this goes against what our recent California ISO flex alerts advised, charging during the day takes advantage of renewable energy, like solar, and saves the night-time grid from all the energy car charging requires.
"The EV use is a lot more impactful than doing your laundry or some of these other activities," said Rajagopal. But there's another school of thought on this. One that says that with California going towards EVs to go green and cut pollution, the emphasis should be on getting more EVs, not telling people when to charge them up.
"There is nothing wrong with charging at night, it's clean, it's good, it's the right thing to do," said Dr. Gil Tal, director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis.
Dumb headline. If we have to set our thermostat at 78° because we don’t have enough electricity we sure as hell can’t be charging electric vehicles during peak hours.
Lol, all these climate change guidelines and precautions are going to be like Covid precautions: Made up as they go along.