Battery Powered Vehicles, The Future??

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Refugee's point is actually even more significant. It's not just "night loads", it's a potentially much broader capability of distributed grid scale storage. Such storage is essential to maximise the benefits of renewables. Actually it's not fully fledged grid scale storage because it's only a sink for excess power, not a source. Unless combined with static flow batteries which might be feasible ont he same site. While cars with lithium batteries can act as distributed grid scale storage, they also have the potential to cause problems with peak demand. Charging points may well need extensive network reinforcement. Flow battery recharge stations should be a lot kinder to the network.