Tesla Motors Announces A New Home Battery; Living Off The Grid Will Soon Be Status Quo

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82. So tolls on every road then? Every person pays to sustain an electric company's business model?

Cars are becoming more fuel efficient. Gas taxes paid will go down for some (with more efficient cars) and become optional for other Americans with electric cars, so the states need to account for that.

I would be overjoyed if more people were on the road in electric cars (and fewer in oil burners) due to lowering the cost of driving. Traffic would suck, but hey no extra carbon emissions to warm up the planet.

I don't know who these "people want to get off the grid but still want access to it without paying for the maintenance of it" are. Either you are a customer of an electric company or you aren't and have to make your own electricity off the grid (unless you're getting power at an airport or a Starbucks or something).

If 50% of my electric company's customers "no longer paid anything for electric" that would mean they no longer utilized its power generation. That would be 50% less demand (or whatever % they represent). The electric company would reduce output, sell the extra power to another utility, and/or ask the utility commission to raise rates to help its bottom line.