Drivers clearly can opt out: /In all likelihood, not all participating drivers will agree to delay charging each time the system sends an alert — they could be on the road or know they need a full charge soon. So BMW will tap a bank of used electric-car batteries, located at the automaker’s technology office in Mountain View, to make up the difference, sending PG&E enough electricity to make up for the drivers who opted out.
“That’s our way we’re ensuring that we always meet our commitment to PG&E while never sacrificing mobility for our customers,” said Julia Sohnen, an advanced technology engineer in sustainable mobility for BMW./ So I guess the utility communicates with the ev and stops charging ones that are actively charging unless the driver has posted an "opt out" on the vehicle computer? Seems like a nice system since the utility still gets the allotted power savings they have contracted for with BMW, and the drivers are not impacted - as long as they remember to post an opt out when needed. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EV-Demand-Response-backdoor-solution-tp4673371p4673380.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
