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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by Mauricebranagh on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:41AM (#25902081)
Why would you want to stress a very expensive and hard to replace car component - reducing its life.

Just put some solar panels on your roof

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by brianwawok on Monday January 25, 2021 @07:42AM (#25902486)
Night during an outage?

A good generator cost 5k or more. I have a 75 kWh battery sitting in my garage. Bummer the tech isn’t right to reverse the flow. My understanding is Tesla don’t have the right part to reverse the AC flow.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by djrogers on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:13PM (#25905796)
This use case is for a 1-2x /yr event, not an every day thing. Also, solar panels do nothing for you if there is a power outage when there's no sun...
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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by Mauricebranagh on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:12AM (#25915393)
So Tesla makes a lot of changes for a facility that a tiny number of people will use once or twice a year.

Refurbishing old car batteries into a Powerwall type of device might make more sense though for a domestic use a fuel cell make more sense.

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