• Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t quite get it, I’m in the UK and a standard 7kw charger can be configured to charge at any rate. So what you could do is when demand is low pump out 7kw and when demand is low drop back to say 1kw. The benefit is you can balance the demand by removing a vehicle sooner that would otherwise added to the load later, giving everyone more charge and further reducing load on the next day. It’s literally what my electric company does across every charger linked to there network. Although they do it so they can schedule all the charging to happen at the cheapest hours, giving me a lower price for charging.

    The same also applies to a 11/22kw charger, 3phase but most houses don’t have 3phase supply and most cars top out at 11kw on ac.