Re:Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days
by jsight on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @10:16AM
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> He cannot possibly be that ignorant. Nobody is going to be willing to not only put cycles on their battery but risk being left with a half-charged vehicle during a grid failure.
Well, that cycle part is important, as I'm still not clear on the warranty implications of actually using this vehicle's battery for stationary storage.
However, outside of that, I don't think its fair to call it ignorant. Grid emergencies are often related to excess consumption for really specific periods of time. Our local utility sends out alerts asking for reduced consumption during peak just to save them some $$$s, as spot prices can be very high for brief periods of time.
We also have TOU plans available where the peak rate is more than $.20 higher than the off peak rate. There are plenty of people that would gladly pocket that difference in exchange for burning through ~25% of a battery. And because its not an outage, but rather a cost issue during peak, they'll just load back up right after the "emergency" subsides.
I'd still really like to know what the warranty for this style of usage looks like.
Well, that cycle part is important, as I'm still not clear on the warranty implications of actually using this vehicle's battery for stationary storage.
However, outside of that, I don't think its fair to call it ignorant. Grid emergencies are often related to excess consumption for really specific periods of time. Our local utility sends out alerts asking for reduced consumption during peak just to save them some $$$s, as spot prices can be very high for brief periods of time.
We also have TOU plans available where the peak rate is more than $.20 higher than the off peak rate. There are plenty of people that would gladly pocket that difference in exchange for burning through ~25% of a battery. And because its not an outage, but rather a cost issue during peak, they'll just load back up right after the "emergency" subsides.
I'd still really like to know what the warranty for this style of usage looks like.