If you are from Texas...Cybertruck can power a house

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

pianotuna wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

Ok, back to EV powering a house.

Is there a special connection for the EV to power the home or it's just like the straight up connection between the RV and the trailer puller? Crazier question, how would you prevent it from powering the entire neighbourhood? Pulling down the main switch?

Yeah, I have not heard of such feature like that here in the US..

Hi Yosemite Sam1,

It would operate in the same manner as a hybrid grid tied system (i.e. a solar farm with battery storage).

The meter would need to be upgraded. The owner would be reimbursed for power that was drawn from their BEV to help stabilize the grid.

In the case of a power outage, where one wishes to still have power, a relay would disconnect the home from the grid.

@pianotuna

Thanks, this now makes sense to me.:o

And I would think that with the upgraded meter and all, there will be sensors and would thus be automatic.

Nooo, it's actually nothing like a hybrid grid system, save for the last part about disconnecting the residence from the grid.
A simple manual transfer switch and preferably one with a small sub panel that contains the circuits you wish to run on emergency power is all that's needed.

Yes, you can use automatic transfer switches as well, but why would you with an emergency power source that you had to manually activate (plug in)?

Why would you ever want to try to help power the rest of the grid in a power outage situation with the battery pack in your EV?
Aside from not wanting to, you couldn't. That's the whole point of isolating your emergency power, so you don't fry a lineman.