The massive coming surge of electric vehicles (EVs) could destabilize the grid -- or, if properly managed, become a crucial tool to maintain grid stability as more renewable energy comes online. The key is getting EVs to communicate with the grid, and vice versa. Amanda Myers Wisser and Smriti Mishra of WeaveGrid are working on that. We chat about how it's going.
Looks like a good company. Curious if a company like this has any summer internships for, say, someone working on her computer science degree at Cal Poly.
Good discussion, and we all love sexy technology, but are there simpler possibilities? 12,000 mile per year cars, at 4 miles per kWh, need on average about 8 kWh a day, 1 kW for 8 hours. Should low-power, cheap, workplace charging be the general rule? A future of abundant solar electricity needs a destination for the surplus, and batteries on wheels seem a perfect destination. V2G would complement this well.
I am wondering how battery swapping might benefit the integration of EV batteries into the grid and how the standardization of optimal charging (time and voltage) for grid and battery longevity could be better achieved in a swapping system.
@8:00 Truly, utilities feel ancient in a way that nothing else does. The continued use of obsolete tech is unreal. e.g. Fortran wasn't just a programming language of the past, it's still in wide use today at your local utility!
Looks like a good company. Curious if a company like this has any summer internships for, say, someone working on her computer science degree at Cal Poly.
Good discussion, and we all love sexy technology, but are there simpler possibilities? 12,000 mile per year cars, at 4 miles per kWh, need on average about 8 kWh a day, 1 kW for 8 hours. Should low-power, cheap, workplace charging be the general rule? A future of abundant solar electricity needs a destination for the surplus, and batteries on wheels seem a perfect destination. V2G would complement this well.
I am wondering how battery swapping might benefit the integration of EV batteries into the grid and how the standardization of optimal charging (time and voltage) for grid and battery longevity could be better achieved in a swapping system.
@8:00 Truly, utilities feel ancient in a way that nothing else does. The continued use of obsolete tech is unreal. e.g. Fortran wasn't just a programming language of the past, it's still in wide use today at your local utility!