If everyone charges their EV when they get home from work at night, it will put an enormous strain on the electrical grid. Carefully strategizing about where to put EV charging stations for people to use when out and about during the day, combined with encouraging people to delay EV charging when they get home for the night, could virtually eliminate excess strain on the grid. Charging cars while parked at work during the day would use up midday solar generation otherwise going to waste. Or people could set at-home chargers to finish charging shortly before they plan to leave home the next morning, rather than juicing the car up right away when they get home. Together, the two strategies can all but eliminate the extra early-evening surge in electricity demand from widespread adoption of EV.
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