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That can encourage it, but people will need to charge even when it's not windy. Having a smart charger wait for cheap electricity which may never come is a great way to end up with dead battery.

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Smart chargers can predict weather, demand, carbon, price for the coming hours, they don't need to be entirely reactive.

There's various APIs you can check to see these predictions

https://docs.watttime.org/

That's not too smart then. I'm talking about something with a bag of weighted goals. Having a dead battery would have a strong enough cost that it would pay more for higher market rates if state of charge is low.

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