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I still don’t see how that affects anything.
If you have a grid failure around you, you aren’t going to bring your generator up to the gas station and ask to plug in their modem for their payment system and pumps to fill up your ICE tank.
In your case nothing would change, except for the potential to reverse charge your home of critical systems like your furnace and hot water heaters and to most likely to have 300 miles of range instead of 50% of whatever your ICE range is.
Depending on what you plug in to those circuits you could get 2-3 days of electrical service from a reverse charge off your EV, saving precious petrol and extending the off-grid comfortable time.
We had a grid failure in 2021 in Texas for 4 days, I never once thought it was time for a road trip.
If you have a grid failure around you, you aren’t going to bring your generator up to the gas station and ask to plug in their modem for their payment system and pumps to fill up your ICE tank.
In your case nothing would change, except for the potential to reverse charge your home of critical systems like your furnace and hot water heaters and to most likely to have 300 miles of range instead of 50% of whatever your ICE range is.
Depending on what you plug in to those circuits you could get 2-3 days of electrical service from a reverse charge off your EV, saving precious petrol and extending the off-grid comfortable time.
We had a grid failure in 2021 in Texas for 4 days, I never once thought it was time for a road trip.
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Not true. Trickle charge using solar array.
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If the entire grid fails I have bigger concerns than charging my EV, or driving my ICE car
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I just don't think that's a viable solution. And this article seems to agree stating you aren't likely to fully charge an EV (from 0%-100%) in a day from a standard solar installation agrees (https://blog.evbox.com/charge-ev-sol...d%20television). For the average American, I don't think that works.
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Hopefully anyone thinking of getting this takes a look at what is happening with EV trade-in/resale residuals, even on popular EVs like the Model Y. This Macan EV is a lease-only proposition.
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The grid does not have to go down to leave hundreds of EV (Tesla) owners stranded. Look what happening in the Midwest with the sub-zero temps. Electrical grid is up but the EV charging stations are not. Don't think ICE owners are unable to fill up their cars under the same conditions because the gas pumps are working just fine. And a low power 500W solar panel is not enough to charge a car with 100 KW batteries unless you got a month to wait (and its not cloudy and your solar panel is not iced up yatta yatta yatta).
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The grid does not have to go down to leave hundreds of EV (Tesla) owners stranded. Look what happening in the Midwest with the sub-zero temps. Electrical grid is up but the EV charging stations are not. Don't think ICE owners are unable to fill up their cars under the same conditions because the gas pumps are working just fine. And a low power 500W solar panel is not enough to charge a car with 100 KW batteries unless you got a month to wait (and its not cloudy and your solar panel is not iced up yatta yatta yatta).
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Welcome to the Internet Age, when lies and BS make it around the world ten times before the truth gets past the firewall...
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