What Is V2L? A Guide to Vehicle-to-Load Charging
Your electric vehicle isn’t just transportation. It’s a massive portable power station. A typical EV battery holds 60 to 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity. For context, a high-end portable power station might hold 2 to 3 kilowatt-hours. Your EV has 30 to 50 times more capacity. Vehicle-to-load technology, known as V2L, lets you tap into that […]
What is V2H? How Vehicle-to-Home Charging Works
When the power goes out, a typical home battery can keep your lights on for 8 to 12 hours. Your electric vehicle could keep them on for days. The average EV battery holds 60 to 100 kilowatt-hours of energy. A Tesla Powerwall holds 13.5 kilowatt-hours. That’s not even close. And if you already own an […]
What is V2G? A Guide to Vehicle-to-Grid Technology
Your electric vehicle’s battery is one of the largest energy storage devices you own. A typical EV holds 60 to 100 kilowatt-hours of energy, roughly six times more than a home battery like the Tesla Powerwall. And most of the time, that massive battery just sits in your garage, doing nothing. Vehicle-to-grid technology, known as […]
Why Home Batteries Are About to Get Boring (And That’s Great News)
Take a look at the side of almost any house in your neighborhood and you’ll probably see an AC unit sitting on a concrete pad, maybe a standby generator next to it. Big beige boxes, utilitarian, with curb appeal as a secondary priority. Nobody designed them to look good or positioned them where guests would […]
The Trillion-Dollar Grid Problem We Don’t Need to Fix
For over two decades, I specialized in North American energy markets. I watched power flow across transmission lines, tracked commodity prices, and saw firsthand how the grid balanced supply and demand. It was a system that worked. Until it didn’t. The “electrify everything” movement everyone’s talking about has a multi-trillion-dollar problem nobody wants to discuss. […]