EV batteries don’t last forever. Should they power the grid?

To the editor: Your editorial urges the state to require that electrical automobiles have the aptitude to place power again into the grid throughout blackouts or instances when electrical energy demand is extraordinarily excessive. That is perhaps a good suggestion for all — that’s, if batteries lasted without end.

However they don’t. EV batteries are warranted for a restricted time, not without end. Would utilities assist EV house owners pay for a substitute battery? I believe not, as the fee to them can be too excessive.

For perspective, think about the uproar if the state required gas-powered automobiles to idle at night time to complement the grid. House owners would see their engines prematurely sporting out.

So, should you insist on EV house owners serving to energy the electrical grid when it’s unable to fulfill demand, you must also assist requiring fossil-fueled automobiles to have electrical outputs to allow them to shore up the grid by working their engines all day and night time.

Tom Egan, Costa Mesa

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To the editor: The common Californian drives about 39 miles per day. If a typical EV battery has a capability of 40 kilowatt hours and goes about 3.5 miles per kilowatt hour, and if current California EV drivers saved 100% of their common day by day miles pushed in reserve, then the roughly 1.1 million EV drivers within the state would have almost 19,000 megawatt hours of electrical energy day by day to contribute to the grid.

That’s greater than eight hours of output from our largest energy plant, the nuclear facility at Diablo Canyon, which now provides about 9% of all our electrical energy.

EV gross sales are skyrocketing (I like my Hyundai Kona EV), and batteries are getting larger. Increasing vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid capability may provide the secure base-load capability we have to absolutely benefit from our most cost-effective and healthiest electrical energy sources, wind and photo voltaic.

Tom Hazelleaf, Seal Seashore

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To the editor: I’d hope {that a} nation that may create and deploy a technological marvel such because the James Webb Area Telescope can work out a technique to incorporate photo voltaic panels into the roof of a automobile in order that there can be a near-constant replenishing of the automobile’s batteries.

This might assist enhance vary, cut back the necessity for costly dwelling modifications to accommodate EV charging, and cut back the necessity to spend tax {dollars} for big numbers of charging stations.

Mary Edwards, Camarillo