Bowen says that agreement on new standards means that EV owners will be able to use vehicle to grid technology - effectively using their cars as batteries on wheels - by the end of the year.

Huge news!

  • No1@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    Common sense prevail? What is going on in the world?

    The benefits for home owners are obvious, but I wonder if/how apartments etc would work?

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      7 months ago

      This is purely a way to sell more electric cars. It is also completely pointless.

      Solar comes in during the day: cars are not parked/connected when the solar is coming in.

      People would be better off buying an off-the-shelf home battery or having a professional Solar Installer build a battery array. Even a top-shelf $10,000 Tesla PowerWall is cheaper than the cheapest EV.

      • No1@aussie.zone
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        7 months ago

        There is a pretty high percentage of cars parked at home during the day. I recall seeing something along the lines of 40-60%. Edit: ABS 2021 says 53% only drove. That number decreased from 62% in 2016.

        I thought the idea was if you bought an EV, you used your EV as the battery storage so you didn’t need to have both EV and separate battery storage.

        ie, it assumes you have/will have an EV to do car stuff, not that you buy the EV specifically for battery storage.