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You may be unfamiliar with the fact that most workplaces have things called "electric outlets" which operate both day and night, and there is this wonderful invention called "the grid" which transports electricity from place to place. Besides, if fuel availability or carbon emissions are the primary constraint, it doesn't particularly matter when you generate the power (although near peak hours is obviously the best for other reasons). If you can schedule the scooters to charge in the morning when the PV is ramping up but before the afternoon demand peak, you re-shape both the production and demand curves in favorable directions.
That grid thing really is pretty cool.
Not that it couldn't do with a few improvements - feel like doing a joint post on smart grids with me ?
It would be nice to have something to point people at when these discussions erupt...
If you lost my e-mail, it's still on the old blog.
Edit: Posts move off the main page and out of sight too fast. What we really need for this stuff is a Wiki. We could edit the Wikipedia page (there's even a plea to do so), but there's no assurance that the changes would stick.