Imagine hundreds of millions of electric vehicles acting as a collective giant national battery !

mere economic questions won’t stall green renewable but the CON in the tin hat living next door might...

Distributing excess amounts of wind and solar electricity energy forward into time, to periods in the day when the supply is lower and or demand is higher, is a pressing economic barrier to a green economy, at a time when direct electricity production from renewables is ALREADY way cheaper than non-renewables.

Storage costs, not production costs, are the biggest barrier.

But what is uniquely valuable about any nation’s collection of vehicle and the batteries (together with home & business garage charging posts) is how inherently de-centralized it already is and that its costs of storage are naturally borne by the vehicle owners not government or business.

Statistically, it is very reliable and very robust addition to a national power grid rendered fragile by shifting to locally unreliable wind and sun away from huge reliable stockpiles of coal sitting next to a handful of megawatt base cola-fired power generators.

Here is an article that describes the idea in more detail.

The idea is so wonderful I bet the CONs are already dreaming up conspiracies to destroy it. Why exactly do CONs need to be so hateful ?

Yes, I could couple it with articles on how cheap solar panels are altering the economics of the world’s heroin suppliers in Afghanistan but let’s leave that hot potato to another day - and to another set of CON conspiracy freaks....