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A 24 kWh cap per day seems very reasonable. Drawing 8 kW is quite a lot.

My home is in London UK and is relatively small and efficient, but 8kWh may be higher than our peak demand ever over more than 20 years in this house...

UK appliances cap out at 13A, or 3.1kW. Electric cookers may be on higher current wiring, but seem to be rated at 3kW max anyway.

I think the only way most people could get to 8kW continuous without an EV would be to turn on their electric oven, grill, and all spots on their electric hob. And the kettle.

My Danish electricity supplier lets me download my smart meter records since 2022.

It's by hour, and the highest times are probably when I was cooking with both the oven and the hob, and perhaps had the washing machine running too. The highest hour used 2.9kWh.

Plenty of cheap (e.g. rental) homes in the UK have crappy electric shows, which are usually rated at 6-8kW — but rarely used for a whole hour.

Ofc I meant 8kW! Eeek.

But also it is unlikely that we used 24kWh in any one day ever.

It's not enough to charge a car fully.

How often do you discharge a car fully?

I think this is another of those weird "Electricity as fuel" metaphors where non-owners don't understand that an EV, like their phone, isn't a thing you specifically "fill up" like you would a petrol car.

Then charge the car partially.

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