{"id":273011,"date":"2023-08-12T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273011"},"modified":"2023-08-12T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T11:00:38","slug":"calif-moves-to-siphon-your-evs-battery-to-power-its-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273011","title":{"rendered":"Calif. Moves To Siphon Your EV\u2019s Battery To Power Its Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Change Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0JOHN NOLTE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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State legislators in Democrat-run California are looking to pass a law that will make it easy for the power company (PG&E) to steal energy from your electric car battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is this: when California\u2019s third-world electric grid needs extra juice, the power company will simply suck that juice straight from your electric car battery. [emphasis, links added]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is possible due to what\u2019s known as \u201cbi-directional\u201d charging<\/strong>, which was originally conceived as a way to\u00a0use your electric car as an emergency generator in the event of a power outage<\/strong>, which is a nifty idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, Democrats and PG&E only see a way to use this technology\u00a0to further<\/a>\u00a0their evil designs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCalifornia\u2019s power grid will have to expand<\/strong>\u00a0in order\u00a0to meet the demand for more energy<\/strong>. PG&E\u2019s CEO Patricia Poppe has come up with an \u201cunconventional\u201d idea,\u00a0using electric cars to send excess power back to the grid to prevent blackouts.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to stop here and discuss the word \u201cexpand.\u201d If I buy groceries, put some of those groceries in the refrigerator, and then go back later to retrieve those refrigerated groceries, did I \u201cexpand\u201d my groceries? Obviously not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLawmakers in Sacramento are helping to move things along,\u201d the report says. \u201cFor example,\u00a0Senate Bill 233 would make bi-directional charging mandatory for all new electric vehicles.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, San Diego already has a \u201cpilot program with school buses using bi-directional charging<\/strong>\u00a0that feeds into the grid at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a gigantic unharnessed, untapped power source that can be used. Most vehicles are sitting parked,\u00a0unused 95 percent of the time<\/strong>,\u201d Kurt Johnson of the Climate Center said. He adds that \u201c125 plus vehicle-to-grid projects are going on globally.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This does not create even one extra kilowatt of power<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All it does is\u00a0drain your car battery\u2019s power<\/strong>, which is the\u00a0power you are going to have to put right back into that battery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how exactly will the grid remain stable<\/strong>\u00a0when\u00a0millions of electric vehicle owners<\/a>\u00a0are all in a panic charging their cars at 6:30 a.m. so they can get to work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hot Air\u2019s Ed Morrissey\u00a0explains<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s the ultimate in authoritarian redistribution \u2014 no real production, and lots of opportunity for losses and scarcity rationing\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It instead creates a kind of three-card Monty with the grid \u2014 shifting power to the vehicles, and then pulling it back when the state decides to apply it elsewhere. It\u2019s only an\u00a0illusion<\/em>\u00a0of a solution; no additional power gets created. PG&E and the state would simply confiscate that power for their own uses as\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0see fit. Technically, the grid would operate more efficiently if it never charged the EVs at all, considering the inevitable power losses that would take place in regional \u201cbidirectional charging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with owning an EV if you\u00a0choose<\/em>\u00a0to do so. This, however, isn\u2019t a choice. California is forcing its citizens into EVs, mandating the end of gasoline-powered personal vehicle sales in the next decade, and is already planning to exploit its monopoly on vehicle energy for its own ends. This proposal in particular exploits that monopoly to cover up the insane and destructive energy policies of the Democrat government monopoly in Sacramento. Internal combustion vehicles and their decentralized, independent power sourcing are still the best choice for freedom \u2014 which is why California Democrats want to eradicate them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s not as if charging your vehicle at home tops your tank. For every hour you charge at home from a standard outlet,\u00a0all you gain is\u00a0two to four miles<\/a>\u00a0of range.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if you purchase Tesla\u2019s handy-dandy adaptor that pulls 40 amps,\u00a0you might get 30 to 40 miles of charge per hour<\/strong>, but what good is that\u00a0if the electric company steals it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if you need 70 miles of range per day? Do you have\u00a0two free hours in the morning to refresh your charge?<\/strong>\u00a0Do you really want to hit the California highway system with only 60 to 80 miles of charge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Californians are so stupid\u00a0they are voting for politicians who would propose this plan<\/strong>\u00a0before they would\u00a0propose something as radical as, say, building new\u00a0power plants<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what do these idiots think powers their precious electric cars?<\/strong>\u00a0Where do they think that electricity comes from? Most of it comes from\u00a0burning coal<\/a>.\u00a0These are not electric-powered cars.<\/strong>\u00a0These are\u00a0coal-fired cars<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top photo by\u00a0Ernest Ojeh<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read rest at\u00a0Breitbart<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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