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by mmaurizi 1183 days ago
I would think an electric car would pair really well with off-grid solar - you can charge the car with excess energy during the day, and pull from the cars battery for power at night.

Sure it's a big power draw, but you can significantly downsize your battery system, which is presumably also a big power draw.

Or do you not have a big battery system now, and only run the high energy appliances like the oven during the day when you have lots of power?

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>Or do you not have a big battery system now, and only run the high energy appliances like the oven during the day when you have lots of power?

Yeah it is a small system so far, so I even serialize some of my usage, but I dont see the point scaling it up too much, since the cloudy day generation is so poor. So rather than EV I probably go with an eBike.