‘Untapped power’: EVs pumped electricity into the grid after transmission towers went down 

Only to charge other EVs... sounds like communism.

100KWH battery pack in a car is quite large. That's probably about 3 days worth of electricity for a moderately sized home. I personally use only about 15KWH per day.

@@imzjustplayin yeah as you said A moderately sized home 1 home.

Thankfully gasoline powered vehicles never catch fire....oh wait.

@@imzjustplayin they are easier to put out though

@@imzjustplayin You say this as if you had a point. As if they're prone to exploding, catching fire with regularity, much less compared to EVs.

@@garrett3117 you have that backwards. Gasoline and hybrid vehicles catch fire at a significantly higher rate: Data from the National Transportation Safety Board showed that EVs were involved in approximately 25 fires for every 100,000 sold. Comparatively, approximately 1,530 gasoline-powered vehicles and 3,475 hybrid vehicles were involved in fires for every 100,000 sold

@@imzjustplayinyou missed the point … Gas fires can be put out… EVs ….. NOT

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I have an EV. It has a powerful motor and is very compact. It's really good at cleaning the dirt up on my floors and is bagless to boot.

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My suggestion is to buy one with a smaller battery. Aside from being cheaper, they also have limited range, so the temptation to drive it too far away is reduced.

@@tin2001 I have a Model S but anything less than 200 miles of range is too much of a PITA to deal with especially if you can't charge at home.

They get paid. If you pay $1 to charge your car, you might get paid $5 to discharge your car if there is an acute energy shortage.

It's not that simple. You cannot pull the plug out of an EV until the car and the charger agree to let you do so (same problem during a fire situation). If during a power outage your "Smart Meter" decides to drain your EV to the grid you will be unable to pull the plug. ""Smart Meters" are not for your benefit.

@@SalemikTUBE Unless you don't have permission to unlatch/disconnect an EV charging cable, the car isn't going to prevent you from releasing the charging cable. If you're charging at home, you have 100% control over the situation and if you're at a public charging station, they're not likely to do V2G. There is ZERO evidence they're going to force people to participate in V2G and when they start doing V2G, people will do it because there is a financial incentive to do so. The best part about owning an EV is that if any shenanigans happens with the government and the electric grid, you can go off grid entirely. It's pretty clear you don't own an EV.

@@imzjustplayinyeah right…

@@batmanlives6456 You seek facts to support your beliefs, I seek facts to create my beliefs. Things change and some ideas become bad ideas and some bad ideas become good ideas. EVs are a good idea if you have cheap electricity and the vehicle can fulfill most of your needs given its limitations. I don't recommend EVs to everybody because I don't believe they're ready for mass adoption but I do believe EVs are the future. Hybrids are good for most people and have the environmental benefits that are 90% of what EVs powered by fossil fuels are. Only reason to force mass adoption of EVs is because the grid is 100% renewable energy and EVs charging infrastructure is ubiquitous and fast.

They say it is and should be free. Dirty Governments.

It's in use in the car giving it the ability to go places if the driver chooses.

Good point!

Our politicians don't care though as it won't affect them.

V2G would likely have discharge limits that can be set by the user or the user can choose to opt out entirely.

I doubt emergency services would configure their electric vehicle fleet to feed back into the grid. It's entirely optional, and has to be wired up with a charger capable of doing it. A basic mains charger won't do it at all, and fast chargers are generally one way.

How would you know?

You can't unplug an EV until the car and the charger agree to let you. The plugs are locked in. Your smart meter is a spy.

@@SalemikTUBE it’s not for you it’s for them what if you decided to run your fridge on a battery ?

​@@SalemikTUBE You obviously don't own one. Even when locked, you press a button to unlock. Locking the plug is optional. And even if you couldn't unplug it, circuit breakers exist, the car will disconnect the battery if you remove the 12v battery, and the car has, by law, an isolation plug somewhere, that physically disconnects the battery pack at the battery pack.

Sounds like you're a low information voter. The fact you think this sounds like Snake oil shows you don't know what you're talking about.

I think they will one day. Or at least they'll become show pieces and novelties... Much like the horse and cart did once petrol became commonly available and motor cars become affordable. Whether that happens within any of our lifetimes is the bigger question. I'm not old, and I doubt I'll see it happen.

I mean ABS isn't tracking anyone... But I get your point. Modern cars are terrible for privacy... But it's not limited to electric cars. The worst offenders for privacy issues are actually manufacturers with no or limited EV sales.

@@tin2001 The Australian Bureau of Statistics certainly is. (ha, ha, ha)

2.8L? That's pretty tiny. My parents Hyundai van is almost that big. Is it a hybrid or hooked up to a ridiculously low range CVT or something? Or so they just think no one needs to haul a tractor out of the wet fields on farms anymore? I've seen a 70 series tow a semi tipper fully loaded with dirt up an incline, and around a roundabout before. I just can't see a 2.8L engine doing stuff like that even with a crazy low gear ratio.

@@tin2001 it is proving to be a good motor. It produces the same power as the V8 in the 70 series and mated to the 6 speed auto performs much better in all modes whether unladen or towing and fuel economy is much better. Check out Ronny Dahl's channel or Car Expert for useful reviews. The V8 is only a single turbo but even when tuned is unable to match the 4 cylinder. I think you'll find the Hyundai is not in the same ballpark as the 2.8. Either way, the old V8 is gawn.

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Woolies can go f themselves. Get woke go broke.

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No but it's ok to steal from them because they're communists and so don't believe in property ownership.

They're supposed to be compensated significantly because if they're not, there is zero incentive to do V2G.

I would hope so... But solar feed in rates are about 1/4 of the buy in rate. I imagine battery feed in rates are much the same. So if you charge your EV off full rate power, then feed it back in during a blackout, you're paying a premium for someone else's lights to run. The only place it would be a benefit is somewhere that the car is charged off solar in a guaranteed way, or if they have a deal with the energy provider to pay nothing for the car charging and get nothing back for it charging the grid.

@@tin2001but do these public chargers have the ability to give credits for when they drain the power of EVs that are plugged in during a blackout? You would hate to think you are charging your vehicle while at work or shopping g and return to your car still being charged for the power you used charging your vehicle but then finding it with less charge it had before you plugged it in or even worse having it dead flat

V2G is an optional feature and a good one at that. I pay $0.20 per KWH to charge my car and I'm paid a $1 per KWH to discharge my car.

It would have a range of about 10 miles.

Nobody ever and I don’t think they sell enough of them anymore to fill a car carrier with them 😂

T.G.E has some ....they don't work.

Yes, they ride on rails.

I'm not surprised the Landcruiser was discontinued. Toyota has a number of issues at present, and the Landcruiser was probably barely profitable globally. Aside from Africa, the Middle East and Australia the Landcruiser is rarely seen. It makes more sense to pour money into the Prado and Hilux lines which are more popular, and put the savings into R&D for new ICE engine designs.