Dino juice v Electrons....
Towing just got longer....A LOT LONGER...(and harder) Well....I guess it would work.....if you're retired....and like to wait around at charging stations half of your life.....and like to play soli...
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tommyznr wrote:time2roll wrote:tommyznr wrote:Are you sure the power must be fed back to the utility vs just powering the home? No export inverters are fairly common.
It reads like your typical Popular Science article from my youth. Lots of cool technology on the horizon, not much of that technology was able to live up to the pipe dream that we read about.
Power companies will love you though. Buy your power retail and sell that same power back wholesale if you are not using your car today. With a thousand different utilities there are a thousand different rate structures so your mileage may vary depending on where you live. If you read any solar forums, you will find that more and more utilities are making it harder and harder to resell solar back to the grid.
Good point. So the usefulness is limited to areas that suffer from brownouts or have on-peak/off-peak utility rates.
Great point, but still wholly un-practical. Besides, Shelby’s whole argument was V2G not V2H (home). Just not quite as dumb as V2G.
Use up your car battery capacity charging it on off peak and then running your house on peak?
In concept there’s a PT Barnum sales pitch lurking there. In reality, do you, t2r, or any of the other dreamers have a solid estimate of the cost of the proper size inverter and setup and how long your Tesla will run your 30 ton air conditioner and/or the rest of your house?
I can tell you the answer is, not cheap, and not very long….
Keep dreaming though! Build back better baby!
