dbsb3233
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That's not really true. You can't (fairly) assign all the embedded fixed costs to the TV and the oven and the porch light but not the BEV that's charging in the garage. It all adds to one's total usage, and the fixed costs fairly spread across all usage. Otherwise that game could be played for every product in the home. Does the dryer count, but not the computer? The furnace but not the lamps? The BEV but not the garage door opener? No, it all counts.More electric vehicles means lower rates for all rate payers so long as the electric vehicle is paying anything above the marginal cost of generation. This will invariably happen since most of the cost of delivering electricity is in the high embedded fixed costs of transmission and distribution.
To give an example, where I am a kWh might cost $.27. Of that amount $.05 is the cost of generation. So long as electric vehicle owners are paying more than this amount they are contributing to a reduction in the bills of other ratepayers.
In a time of demand destruction for electricity, electric vehicles are about all electrical utilities have going for them. In this regard the big problem for ratepayers is not discounts for electric vehicle charging, that's a positive, it's bypass by large companies.
Time-of-day could come into play though. Since demand in the late afternoon and evening tend to be highest, electricity tends to cost more to generate then. And less in the middle of the night and morning. At least so far. Widespread BEV charging overnight could shift that around some. But that's a different matter than the fixed costs, that can only fairly be applied to all usage, not selective.
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