Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "Technology Connections" channel.

same :p
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@lost4468yt You don't need to put charger at every parkingspace (though I wouldn't be surprised if this eventually happens or at least 50% or so of spaces), just put a few parkingsoaces where you install a charger and allow only EV's on these spaces during the night. As ownership of EV's grow, you can expand this by adding extra charging EV spaces. And ofcourse you don't need to charge your EV every night if you can get a full charge during a night, every 2-3 nights would be fine, so you can coordinate with neighbours who have a EV if necessary untill there are extra places added. Level 2 chargers make sense practically everywhere seeing their costs vs level 3 chargers. At best you'd have a mix of the two, several level 2 chargers and for every level 3 charger in that mix (especially usefull in parkings of larger stores where people might be for an hour for example). The governments should also (if they are smart) order that with every upgrade/work on pavement/roads, the possibility for chargers need to be accounted for. This way you can add the necessary infrastructure over time and don't need extra work for just putting in the charging infrastructure (or at least less extra work).
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@DaveMastor User demand Which pushed the regulation. supply chain efficiency Not really a problem. What would Samsung care that apple or Huawei uses a different cable? How would this increase supply chain efficiency for them? By the time the EU passed the law (This year), Yes, but there has been talk about the law for a long long time. Companies just anticipated to it, as to not be caught with the pants down. Just because the law will be made official now, doesn't mean it couldn't already have had an effect. Now all we're left with is a new law mandating a solution to a problem that no longer exists Only because companies anticipated to the law. Whether standardisation would have happened naturally this fast or not without the looming "threat" of a law isn't certain by far. These are laws that are ensconcing the power of these corporations to ensure that competition is more difficult. How would it exactly be more difficult to compete if you don't have to compete with all the different standards? Now a newcomer just has to use this one standard instead of first finding out what would be the best standard, make sure there isn't a patent, ...
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@scottfranco1962 Your entire comment is stupid your car is not plugged in at home when you need the battery power Yes, it is. Peak demand happens in the evening when people come home from work up untill the time they go to sleep. During this time the car would very much be plugged in. Most of the day an EV won't be driving, unless you're talking about robotaxi's, though these too will have peak and low demand times, during low demand many taxis could be linked to the grid too. and anyways you would be taking charge from the car that you need to drive it. In regular days you probably only use like 15-20% of charge to drive. The other 45-40% between 20% and 80% could be used as storage (though maybe 30-35% would be a safer option). Furthermore you'd discharge the battery during the evening and recharge during the night/day, so there would be no problem regarding range. The main reason Elon prefers not to have V2G is because they'll sell less battery walls and installations if this is used. The only reason not to possibly use V2G would be battery degradation. Though if this isn't really a problem, there is no reason not to have at least V2G capability. Whether it is used would be up to the end user/owner of the car. That being said, your EV might not be at home when your solar panels produce power, so a small house battery would still be usefull. But this doesn't need to be large, just enough to get your solar generated power, not a whole day of electricity usage, let alone 2 days for example. And if you work at home you wouldn't even need a house battery, or maybe just an even smaller one to be safe.
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@randommcranderson5155 The EV's would charge when there isn't a high demand, so they wouldn't cause more/severe black outs/brown outs. On the contrary, in case of brown outs, a smart grid could tell EV's at home to discharge to the house grid, lowering demand on the main grid, thus reducing grid load. Only if you have brown outs for half a day or more on a regular basis could EV's possibly worsen the situation, in which case something should definitely be done to the grid infrastucture or power generation either way.
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Maybe just that they are "higher end" (ie. more expensive) products, so they attract smug people? Once Tesla gets a cheap enough car, their users would be just like every other brand users.
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Diesel is readily available ... for the next 100 years or so.
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@reinbeers5322 Most people would use only around 15-20% of their battery in a day on average. That means even if you stay within 20 and 80% charge to lower degradation, you still have 40-45% sitting idle doing nothing. You could as well use it, since you have it. If it is economical, which I'll come back to later. Most people will want a car that can do at least 300 miles on one charge and on average people drive around 30-40 miles a day. So there is a lot of battery you will always take with you, but wouldn't use, with V2G you would be able to use this capacity daily, instead of just these very few times a year where you need to take a long drive and for which you choose a longer range. Ofcourse if you'd rather have a 100 mile car or get a car with a range you reach often (for example if you regularly need to drive long distances), then yes getting more battery for V2G is indeed stupid. But if you have a car where you only use a small part of the capacity anyway averagely, why not just have V2G? Now as for the economical side, here degredation and savings/income come into play. You could use V2G to just power your own home, in which case you need to look at the savings from charging with low price power and using during high price moments is worth the extra degradation. For this you'd need to know the extra degradation and your savings. If the savings outweigh the cost of battery life time loss => use V2G, else don't. The second possibility is that you don't just use the battery for your house, but also the grid. In which case there would need to be system to "buy" (charge) electricity at a low price (low demand, high availability times) and sell (discharge) at high price times (peak moments) or you get a certain amount of money from an electrical company per kWh they store in your battery. Either system is a possibility in the future. Again in this case you'd need to calculate whether the decrease in battery lifetime costs less than the profits you make from it. Will V2G be usefull? time will tell, but I wouldn't be surprised if it will. Would it be usefull for everyone in every situation? Ofcourse definitely not. TLDR: the only concern is battery degradation vs savings/profit and how you use your EV on a regular basis. In the end there must be a system put in place that doesn't exist yet, or at least isn't good enough yet, but it can be done. And ofcourse you as the end user have to be able to change settings (when to charge/discharge, maximum/minimum charge at what time, ...). This is for the future.
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@renakunisaki problem is for example cooling. You can't just put a battery in and plug it in. Not to mention safety. And now Tesla is going to make the battery compartment an integral part of the structure to save costs. Thus I doubt that will become an option anytime soon.
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@DaveMastor There were many several connectors before regulation caused standardisation. I still have several cables with different connecters just in case, though probably will never need them again. Standardisation isn't a problem, maybe just the bureacracy of having the government do it because private couldn't is a problem. But, well if you get a better connector, you can have it changed overtime. Initially all cars still have the old connector anyway, so you'll have use an intermediary device either way in the beginning.
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@whuzzzup Cost obviously? Using a level 3 charger or a fast charger should cost more than a level 2 charger. Ofcourse you can also just plug in you car only one night a week if you don't need to do that more often. If you are refer to V2G, you'd save/make money with it, and you'd only need to plug in your car, how long does that take? A few seconds? Really terrible that you'd need to do that everyday.
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@whuzzzup LMAO In that case you just stop the V2G ability or not plug it in. It is not like they can force you to do it. That they would use it against you is just ridiculous. They'd quickly lose access to your battery.
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@whuzzzup My point was that V2G wouldn't be a cause of higher cost, since if they want and can increase the price they will or even better already would. It might not be the case everywhere, but in some countries you have regulation limiting the price of basic utilities like electricity. And if they increase prices in countries that don't have this too much, this might become a campaign using, causing regulation to be made about that price. In the end, this discussing is rather irrelevant here.
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@crono331 With evenly he means within the same room. Often rooms have their own seperate indoor unit (linked to the same outdoor unit). At least that is the case with my grandmothers system. This way she just heats up the room she is at the time/will be in soon.
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I can't buy dishwasher powder at my store apparantly (at least can't find it in their online catalog), but the storebrand tabs (there are 2 cheap storebrands in that store chain, though most times still with good quality) are actually less expensive then your powder option. When I look at it, they seem like just powder condensed in tabs and nothing more, except maybe some coloring of the powder (maybe different kinds of powder? I don't know). And they come in cartboard packaging so, great? I don't buy them (my father always buys other more expensive brands in large quantities when they are on sale), so it might be that they are individually packaged, I can't say.
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