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What’s the power source for your cordless drill?

Batteries aren't power sources. They're at best storage. And even in a country as ridiculously car addicted as the US you couldn't power the grid off car batteries for long before they'd need recharging... Even if all cars were EVs....

Texas is first in US renewables and has its own semi-walled grid - probably what makes it the scene of the highest peak pricing events I’ve heard of.

I'm gonna stay curious 🤔

The article, or more accurately, the sub headline calls them 'virtual power plants', a term which is not actually used in the article... it is 'important to be accurate' after all. The concept is not new, UK Power companies already support it e.g. octopus.energy/power-pack/

So may of the claims are false that it's made easy!

And then, there is the sociotechnical component as well. Dark doldrum, news report about it, people start hoarding electricity like they did with Toilet paper, decouple their car batteries from the grid.

Flexible EV *charging* makes 'baseload is obsolete' obsolete...

Unlike say burning gas where you can tell it’s 100% efficient as it’s all gone… like the money.

“Rival” nuclear energy?! We need nuclear energy charge them first, sillies. Yes, EV batteries could help us smooth our power grid during times of high demand, when we’re already over reliant on intermittent sources like solar. Or we could build out our grid differently. Ultimately, we need a mix

Texas? That state has bathroom ID laws and America said "good" men becoming women is crazy or impossible 🙄 That state is supposed to be ok it has millions of people. Why would they do that? It involves polling locations, universities, public schools. You know that sounds like Jim Crow laws 🤔

There's an upper limit: you can't get more energy than sunshine contains per unit of area. And that's not all that much for the size of a car roof...

Mainly because they don't generate very much energy. The Fisker Ocean optimally generates 300 watts at noon in Southern California. Cars aren't under those optimal for very long, though. Owners report generating 20-60 kWh a year. That's maybe enough power for one house for one day.

Another aspect of V2G pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/23/t...

V2G has been studied at least since 2014, needed to resolve who owns impact on EV battery and how the owner is compensated for their energy. Good to see Toyota picking this up!

Can’t decide if the person who wrote the headline just doesn’t understand things, or is bend intentionally misleading.

Unfortunately I'll never be able to afford one thanks to our government

Yes, but Toyota hasn’t gone all inon EVs. They have one…just one…with a stupid name.

Automobiles are energy users, not energy sources. Talk about a dead end.

I didn’t think I’d live to see an exception to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but here we are.

Duh.

Now days there are inverters can use the V2G as the house battery instead of putting the power back into the grid lets not confuse the issue power in Day time You Buy "cheap" power out Night time You Sell "expensive" if you have Solar Panels your profit is MORE For that one time investment

I need 2 read about how safe disposals, from age & accidents, will B, since we know vehicles & their parts age, & vehicles R in road accidents. We haven’t, even figured out nuclear power plants, safe waste disposal & what 2 safely do in accidents. This is the 👎wealthy👎BS, blindsided by greed.

I just checked solar panels are so much cheaper now that i am looking at putting 5kw to 7 kw system on my home which would cut my power bill to nearly zero and if i had a EV prob cost me nothing to drive for less than $10 k to $12 k and create some profit that's 4 years of my power bill

Ugh

Yeah no one can rival Nuke power except solar wind & helliostatic hydroelectric & any other form The most expensive way to make power is nuclear & takes the longest to build, maintenance is excessive with disposal of nuke waste makes it impractical again by a multitude not to mention an accident

Are there any actual journalists who understand the meaning of the language even? That headline is click bait, other of the 'articles' are click bait.

toyota also said the infotainment system in my prius would work.

Here’s a build on that youtu.be/bekrCxssz2g?...

Muted for complete and utter bullshit clickbait.

What a complete load of fucking bullshit!!

Too disjointed. I'm out.

Can you expand at all? We have the capability to install/daily charge from renewables/& distribute energy to the home from battery farms. We could do this now. So why not? Let's change (global economies still revolve on the price of a barrel of oil) We need to change distribution models.

The regeneration is from renewables. We can do it now.

If you use a bank of batteries as a refillable source, of course it has a finite lifespan as anything does. But it can be renewed and/or replaced modularly and managed accordingly as any power station is.

N2V is all we need tho…

Every EV is a single cell in a massive, massive, grid battery, and it is auto-releveling all the time through advanved grid logic.

Watch and learn youtu.be/BFlTHrl1obM

This account has become a paid for, clickbait account.

You've missed the point.

This is a confusing headline. EV’s are not a source of power. EVs consume power

And the advantage of a V2G/V2H system over a static home battery is that if your battery runs down (e.g. low sunlight for solar) then with an EV you can use public charging to get some more for home use.

This is why we need STEAM in schools.