New I could count on you Bill- And sorry I missed you last week. We were close but so so far away.
For other folks if you have a EV vehicle, cart or appliance smart washer or dishwasher or water heater etc you can program the device from a smart phone or from the appliance itself to only charge or operate at the utility lower night rate versus peak power demand and highest rate at day.
For instance a Nissan leaf or Chevy Volt could be accessed at your parking garage while you were at work. You could check the charge and mileage available. It would ask you do I charge now or do you want me to wait later.
Another example would be if available in TV your car could be hooked to a charge point, Before you go home from work you use you smart phone to turn on the cars AC to cool it down( or heat it up) and then the car would ask how far are we going to travel? I have x amount of mileage charge remaining. Would you like me to top off my charge now take a small charge or wait for me to get home to my garage.
Never thought in 1978 in Automotive College while learning how to set ignition points dwell and rebuild a carb that one day I would be communicating with a car and programing it with a cell phone.
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