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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
Not really. Most of the electric gris in cities is quite old and taxed to the limit. What do you think is going to happen when 10,000 people plug their ecomobiles into the grid at bedtime in a small city?
It's going to take years and trillions of dollars to fix the grid.
Until then, Volt has the right idea: Charge the battery with dead dinosaurs.
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Two points, when those 10,000 go on the grid at night, it is off peak hours. So shouldn't the grid be more than capable of handling that?
The Volt does NOT charge the batteries with the ICE. It sustains the charge at the minimum level. The expectation is that it is far cheaper for the customer to charge the battery on the grid at night than by using gasoline. This is called "charge sustaining mode" on the Volt. So the electricty to run the Volt comes from the ICE, but it does not supply surplus power to recharge the battery.