PLUG IN Vehicles offer a chance to turn some electricity into a bigger payoff. I'm sure many of you have heard of Solar Net-metering. That's when you make extra electricity with your solar grid tied system you Feed it back into the GRID and get equal credit for it as you pay.
In some areas like Germany they take the Net-Metering and turn it into a bigger payoff called Feed In Tarrif, to encourage more solar. When you put electricity back into the GIRD in Germany they pay you 8 times what they charge you. So you turn 10 cents a Kwh into a dollar. Here in the USA only a few places have that type of tarrif. In Gainsville Florida they pay you 2 1/2 times what they charge you.
Now add up the numbers. If you take 10 KWh of electricity at say 8 cents a KWh and put it into one of the new efficient lithium battery vehicles like Tesla, aptera, Nissan LEAF , Mitsubishi MiEV or even a plug in hybrid you go about as far as a gallon of gas or diesel would take you. If gas costs about $2.50 a gallon you turn 80 cents into 2.50. That's over 3 times the profit. Not to mention you could be on Time Of Day and get electric for half that cost so it would be 6 times the profit.
I call this Feed In Transportion . An amazing point is you don't even have to have a solar or wind system to cash in. If you real high on helping the environment like I am you also only charge at night Off Peak. This uses excess energy in the GRID that normally gets wasted. It doesn't add to the pollution or fuel use and need no new tramission line or transformers. It's excess since power comapnies can't ramp down coal , nuclear or even hydro at night.
When you add that into the fact that an electric vehicle is very efficient you can see what a great payoff it is for the environment, your power company, the GRID and you. So check out the new advanced battery vehicles and get F.I.T. It's good for you and me.
UPDATE1- With vehicles that have V2G Vehicle 2 GRID you can even charge off peak and sell on peak helping the GRID even more and making more money.
So far only the worlds best EV designer and maker has V2G in their vehicles. Check out the eBox from ACPropulsion.com
There is a real world test of this V2G feature in progress right now at the Univ of Delaware. V2G is the next great Renewable system and most people have missed it.
Also read the book v2g by Len Beck for data on V2G
- Buy paper version of the book (black and white) from Len Beck author at www.V2G-101.Com (volume discount for 10 or more per order), or www.Amazon.Com, or www.EAAEV.Org.
- Buy additional preprinted CD at www.V2G-101.Com (volume discount for 10 or more per order).
