Proponents of Senate Bill 233, which the state's Senate Appropriations Committee will hear this month, say using electric vehicle batteries to power homes, buildings, and even the grid could provide energy resilience and bolster grid reliability. Tesla, for example, says its cars will be bidirectional by 2025. Other manufacturers have been slower to roll out the technology. Making an EV bidirectional capable is a matter of equipping it with the right software and hardware, and some, like the Nissan Leaf, Kia EV 6, and the Lightning, already provide the feature. It's a feature that a proposed California bill would require that all EVs sold in the state offer by model year 2027. "They were like, 'How do you have power?'"īowe kept the lights on using bidirectional charging, which allows electric vehicles to not only receive electricity but discharge it as well. "It was dark out, parents were dropping off their kids, and our house was lit up," said Bowe, who works as a FedEx manager in the Bay Area. Minutes before the party began, Bowe connected his electric Ford F-150 Lightning to a panel in his garage, sending electricity from the pickup truck to his house. Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.Ĭhris Bowe was preparing for his daughter's ninth birthday party in February when a drenching storm knocked out power to his neighborhood in Hayward, California.
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