Here's the Biggest Risk With Tesla's Gigafactory

[kristopher]

10. Not true at all, my friend.

You've apparently never heard of Vehicle to Grid (V2G) power. It is a near certainty that the vehicle fleet of tomorrow will be one of the primary storage mediums for the grid of tomorrow. That isn't just my opinion either, the fellow that just retired as the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been using policies to structure the grid to do just that.

In addition to the role they'll play while they are in the automobiles, they have an afterlife with utilities also. Since EV batteries' functionality depends on their power to weight ratio, when they drop to the point where they can only hold 80% of their original charge they are replaced. The utilities can (and a couple already are) aggregating these batteries into large banks and using them for the grid.

Before you say it won't work, let me stress that this isn't something just out of a blog or a popular science magazine; it is a thoroughly researched and published in peer reviewed journals by a range of different groups from academics, to business to government.

That's why the push for EVs is considered critical to establishing a "least cost" transition to renewable energy.