California considering new rule mandating EV bidirectional charging capability

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by hot diggity, May 3, 2023.


  1. hot diggity

    hot diggity Monkey+++ Site Supporter+++

    I used to work with a guy that had 12v lighting in his trailer. He'd carry a couple batteries to work and charge them during the day to light his home at night. I never realized how ahead of the curve he was. Isn't this proposal just about the same thing, but with a more expensive and bigger battery? Sure, you can have an inverter that allows your EV to run your house, but you can only do that for so long before you need to drive somewhere to recharge. If you have enough battery to make it to a charging station, and If the charging station has power and space available to plug in...and nobody has chopped off the charger cables to sell the copper.

    https://ktla.com/automotive/interne...ire-bidirectional-charging-capability-in-evs/
     
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  2. aardbewoner

    aardbewoner judge a human on how he act,not on look and talk.

    Knowing governments you forced to charge is its expensive and supply if its cheap.win-win power company make more and governments more tax.
     
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  3. oil pan 4

    oil pan 4 Monkey+++

    Nobody cares about this.
    The auto makers and utility providers have zero interest in talking to each other.
    For auto makers it's a useless feature they can add for almost no cost and score green points.
    The utility providers have no interest in battery capacity they don't own especially after being force fed solar installs that destabilize the power grid.
     
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  4. DKR

    DKR Raconteur of the first stripe

    More Green
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  5. Seawolf1090

    Seawolf1090 Retired Curmudgeonly IT Monkey Founding Member

    Seems the Commiefornia gubmint knows that power blackouts are coming.
     
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  6. SB21

    SB21 Monkey+++

    They might not be as bad off as they have been the last few years ,, with all the folks leaving the drug ridden state ,, and a good majority of them living on the streets ,, they might not have a big demand for power consumption here in the near future .
     
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  7. arleigh

    arleigh Goophy monkey

    The problem is powering the line while workers are fixing a break.
    You can't just be adding power to the grid, it endangers those that work on the grid during a power outage.
     
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