“The study estimates that a properly managed V2G car could net the owner close to $3,000 per year.”
LOL - and how much in gas will this car use to create that energy to sell back to the grid ?
or perhaps they are thinking the car will absorb electricity at night and sell it back to the grid during the day ... acting as a storage reserve ?
... That “logic” fails also as the grid would simply buy the battery themselves, lowering the excess capacity at night and evening out the power price - there are already ideas to buy back car batteries that have lost capacity to use in massive storage banks.
I think this is a large part of the idea. Wouldn't it be better from the utility's point of view to have millions of car owners foot the capital cost of battery storage capacity?
why buy new batteries when you can buy up internally shorted ones that won’t hold a charge and piss away your power so much faster...absolutely brilliant I should have thought of using bad batteries in all my stuff.
I’ve got a number of old car batteries that don’t work. Now I just need to find a liberal who’ll buy them.
$3000 a year...Hmmmm...I’ll buy a fleet of vehicles on credit, let the power company make my payments...quit my job and live off of the rest and deduct enough fleet depreciation that I’ll never pay taxes again. Maybe I will teach perpetual motion physics at Green Mountain College with all my free time.