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.
Nope don’t change the subject.
Using them during an outage at least makes a tiny bit of sense, although you haven’t done that math either….
But your buddy Shelby was specifically referencing V2G wherein one charges at off peak and sellls back at peak. As stupid as that is, it’s not near as stupid as buying a 100k pickup truck to keep your lights on when Cali has a brownout.
