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Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car by SoftTalker on Monday November 18, 2024 @12:27PM (#42174658)
It's great now but when it starts to degrade and needs maintenance and replacement that's now entirely your problem, there is no utility with a huge staff of electricians and linesmen ready to deal with that on a sub-zero winter day or in the middle of a rainy night.
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Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car by jebarker on Monday November 18, 2024 @12:34PM (#42174731)
With this kind of setup you can stay connected to the grid. In the event that your solar and storage fail unexpectedly you can still pay for grid electricity.
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Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car by vel0city on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @11:41AM (#42185395)
The grid you've been refusing to pay to support for years, that grid is going to be your backup?
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Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car by jebarker on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @03:32PM (#42187797)
You still pay service fees to maintain a grid connection. Not to mention that many people with these setups contribute excess generation back to the grid or allow their batteries to discharged by the grid during demand spikes.
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Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car by vel0city on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:15PM (#42188167)
A lot of those service fees were designed to scale with the amount of electricity used. If you've got a net metered bill chances are you haven't really been paying much for service fees.

I don't know anyone who bothers discharging their home batteries to the grid. The rates they get wouldn't cover the cost of the wear and tear to their batteries.

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Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car by jebarker on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:25PM (#42188241)
I am part of a plan that discharges my batteries to the grid. I don't initiate this happening, it is based on a pull from the grid upto 60 times per year when demand is high. Full disclosure that I received a rebate on my batteries for allowing this.

Also, I just checked my bills and my service fees are a flat amount independent of how much electricity I pull from the grid.

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