State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness

Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by mikestew on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:00AM (#43184885)

Get an EV instead

Be choosy about the EV, not all of them have this feature (Tesla, for instance, doesn’t last I checked). That said, after we got our Hyundai (and the vehicle-to-load adapter), I sold our generator to a neighbor. Less than a year later, we both got to test our electrical backups.

Hopefully you were going to buy an EV anyway, because a nice generator is about $1000. A Hyundai Ioniq 5 is considerably more than that.

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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by loeg on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:35PM (#43185955)

In the US, almost no vehicles support bidirectional / V2H. It's only the F150 Lightning, I think. (Hyundai/Kia and most others are V2L only.)

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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by ronnier on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:47PM (#43186086)

Cyber truck does

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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by qwerpy on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:55PM (#43186171)

We had a nearly week long power outage due to a windstorm. Tesla has a power gateway, only usable by Cybertruck for now. that detects grid failures and automatically fails over the entire house to vehicle power. My Cybertruck (123 kWh) kept my house powered (15 kWh/day - natural gas took care of hot water, heating, and cooking) for almost all of that, with a one-time top-up at a friend's house.

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