Home battery banks are a thing. EVs also work. We are moving towards virtual power plants and micro grids just that most power grids were not designed for power consumers to also be power generators. They are working through the technical standards like OCPP. …
The large-scale electrification of vehicles, fleets, and marine ports presents a threat to the grid, and as such it is crucial to bring chargers into the equation of energy demand and response systems. The combination of the OCPP with the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) protocol or the Open Smart Charging Protocol (OSCP) turns a charger into a flexibility provider that can react to changes in demand response (DR) within a distributed energy resource (DER) energy ecosystem. Accordingly, an uninformed charging process can be converted into a smart technique, which is able to throttle or postpone a charging process based on currently and locally available grid capacity.
USA : So you want to sell cars in the number 2 car market?
China : Sure.
USA : But what about all the spying you want to do?
China : We don’t want to spy on drivers.
USA : Bullshit.
China : OK how about this. We build a car with no capability of spying. EV with 100kwh, USB port, and big screen. It would be super low priced and undercut legacy auto because they cannot make one.
USA : No. And now that you mention it we are bumping up tariffs just in case.
If spying is the issue then like safety it can go through security certification as well as crash safety certification. But I don’t think spying is the real issue at hand here. I have an ebike with Chinese electronics, motor, and batteries. Pretty sure it doesn’t spy on me and yet it is still highly usable for transportation.
If people want spying capability they can buy the more expensive option from legacy auto. After decades and decades of blocking EVs this is just delay to get legacy auto onboard with EVs. It’s a bad idea.
EVs are not spies. China gets more intel from former government employees than they do from people’s cell phones or TikTok. Indeed is used for spying more than anything because people advertise their experience and makes it super easy for spies to find who to contact.
You don’t see spies sneaking around at night breaking into cars to access info stored on the cars computer. When was the last hack of legacy auto servers with telemetry data?
And do you think that inspection has been done at that level for the past 30 years for all consumer electronics? USA buying stuff from China ain’t new.
It’s called chain of custody. Most people use software. Especially phishing.
China has become a powerhouse in electric vehicles. Its automaker BYD recently topped Tesla in global EV sales, with Elon Musk warning of Chinese carmakers, “If there are no trade barriers established, they will pretty much demolish most other car companies in the world. They’re extremely good.”...
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China will be facilitating Tesla. It will be similar to the last go around. Other countries China builds their own factories. People forget Tesla’s mission statement.
If you asked the typical European or American about BYD a couple of years ago, only the biggest petrol-head or an astute follower of Warren Buffett’s portfolio could have given you a confident answer on what the company does....
They already shook up the industry. This is why auto makers are interested in making EVs after decades of telling people that they don’t want EVs. China, the world’s largest car market, is saturated with EVs. Now China is exporting to countries that don’t have as many EVs as China.
It’s very similar to what Toyota did decades ago. Create a good product and expand.
Hyundai sold 268,785 EVs last year as demand for the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6 picked up. The South Korean automaker plans to strengthen its leadership in the EV market, with new models gaining momentum....
Car makers blocked EVs for decades. Tesla fixed that problem. Now you can go out and buy a GM Bolt and not have to worry… wait. Never mind. I have been told GM discontinued it’s best selling EV in history.
I’d call it more than an experiment. I’m not aware of any such thing in USA but there’s a few in China. There is one community in Florida though that is trying off grid. Not sure where they are these days.
10 years from now Telsa won’t have to do anything but just watch the numbers in their bank account keep going up from all the grid level batteries they’ll have in place.
Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be (electrek.co)
There’s No Easy Answer to Chinese EVs (www.theatlantic.com)
Kia is paying dealers to sell EVs – that could mean deals for buyers (electrek.co)
US To Investigate "Security Concerns" Involving Chinese Electric Cars - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)
Tesla-beating BYD and other Chinese carmakers using Mexico as back door poses ‘extinction-level’ threat to U.S. auto sector, warns trade group (fortune.com)
China has become a powerhouse in electric vehicles. Its automaker BYD recently topped Tesla in global EV sales, with Elon Musk warning of Chinese carmakers, “If there are no trade barriers established, they will pretty much demolish most other car companies in the world. They’re extremely good.”...
Biden’s climate law fines oil companies for methane pollution. The bill is coming due. Recent research suggests the IRA’s methane fee could batter the oil and gas industry to the tune of $1 Billion+ (grist.org)
Israel vows to 'finish the job' in Gaza as War Cabinet member threatens a Ramadan deadline for Rafah (apnews.com)
The U.S., Israel’s top ally, said it instead hopes to broker a cease-fire and hostage-release agreement between Israel and Hamas, and envisions a wider resolution on the war sparked by the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Hamas’ demands “delusional.”...
Elon Musk is inviting Chinese EV car parts makers to Mexico to supply his big Tesla factory planned there, and Washington is freaking out (fortune.com)
BYD mulls EV plant in Mexico as an 'export hub' to the US and overseas markets (electrek.co)
Matt Gaetz stopped at airport security for having a Taser, report says (www.tampabay.com)
BYD EV sales grew nearly 50% in January as exports reached a new high (electrek.co)
BYD is coming for Europe—but high labor costs, connectivity issues, and stubbornly loyal customers might trip up the Warren Buffett-backed EV maker that’s leaving competitors in a ‘state of shock’ (fortune.com)
If you asked the typical European or American about BYD a couple of years ago, only the biggest petrol-head or an astute follower of Warren Buffett’s portfolio could have given you a confident answer on what the company does....
Hyundai sold nearly 269,000 electric vehicles last year as IONIQ 5 and 6 spark growth (electrek.co)
Hyundai sold 268,785 EVs last year as demand for the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6 picked up. The South Korean automaker plans to strengthen its leadership in the EV market, with new models gaining momentum....
China wants its massive EV fleet to plug in and charge the power grid (www.businesstimes.com.sg)
By 2040, EVs in China could have enough capacity to supply all of the country’s peak demand needs if they were V2G-capable
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