Comment Re:Can't wait to get this installed in my house (Score 1) 514
Perhaps you're not familiar with the term "inverter". Inverters are used to convert from DC to AC. The application we're talking about in this thread is charging a battery from the grid at off hours, then using it to power the house during peak. This requires AC (grid) to DC (battery) conversion, then DC (battery) to AC (household stuff) conversion. Plus AC to DC conversion by the device, but that's out of scope.
As I said in my post (with references), typical household inverter units get about 90% efficiency at maximum draw and very much poorer efficiency with low loads. The exact efficiency you get depends on your use case, but it is less than the optimum, so DC->AC loss sounds like a pretty reasonable estimate. 25% is probably low if you consider the full AC->DC->Battery->AC path since the Volt takes 20% loss just on the AC->DC->Battery part, and the DC-AC bit is max 90% efficient.
PS - telling someone to go Google something because they need the practice is rude. Then you went ahead and made unfounded assertions without the least bit of evidence. This makes you look like a rude idiot, regardless of whether you're right or not (you weren't).