In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, my province Nova Scotia had over 400,000 customers without power. Our home had no power for over 27 hours. Luckily I have lots of batteries and a generator but many homes did not have a backup option and still 60,000 are on Day 4 without. One gentleman ( a fellow FB friend) used an inverter off his Chevy Volt to power his fridge and freezer: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/electric-car-hurricane-dorian-1.5274674?fbclid=IwAR29ajKp3gBsVsgdGniiMv6s9fTgtMRSMvHNoCKnMiCjhIyL8i3D-PgLex0
Not the most elegant setup but worked great none the less. My question is, does Vehicle to Grid have any options for home power during outages? Would seem to be a great opportunity for EVs, instead of buying a generator use that money towards an EV and a V2G equipped charger. Obviously some safety measures would have to be put in like a bypass switch used in panel fed generators. Would probably be even safer than a generator as usually 1-2 people die a year in this province alone from carbon monoxide poisoning from generators not placed in a well ventilated area. Thanks Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190911/decc5665/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
