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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time2roll wrote:tommyznr wrote:I believe the primary use would be to power the home during a short term outage.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.
Yes I suppose the truck could be used to avoid peak rates. Although a dedicated battery might be better for this daily use case.
And, since this is about V2G (vehicle to grid) technology it validates Gritdog's comment.
V2G might have applications for government fleets via mandate, Universities for grant money and those individuals/companies that want to feel like they are saving the planet.
After all, there are thousands of companies and individuals who are willing to pay higher electric rates to get "solar power" from the utility.
