The sales women said it wouldn’t feed back into the house so I didn’t specify the option in the, currently, totally hypothetical specification. Would you need to modify/replace your home charger?
I suppose the home charger needs to be a bi-directional V2H charger. Probably more expensive than normal ones.
Just saw this little piece of news:
https://forum.cleanenergyreviews.info/t/tesla-byd-with-v2h-v2g-bidirectional-dc-charging-confirmed/3101
As I have a Model Y with this feature apparently already built-in, maybe I only need to get a bi-directional charger
& very dangerous.!
Looking again, it seems it supports V2L/V2G and not V2H. So although it has bi-directional charging support, it can’t be used to power the home. That’s a shame as if it can do V2G then it theoretically should be able to support V2H as well. You do need a special bi-directional charger for V2G/V2H.
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Maybe because its DC batteries and no onboard high powered inverter, V2L being a max of? 3kw?
Absolutely - for the avoidance of doubt it was not a serious suggestion and, although I looked, you don’t seem to be able to buy one of those bad boys (again, if not obvious, that’s a quick Photoshop job).
But apparently you can buy this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sujhyrty-Extension-Generator-Adapter-Transfer/dp/B0CGRHJ3K6
I know nothing about electrics other than what I have learn from the School of Carelessly Self Induced Electric Shocks. I looked long and hard at that, trying to work out what it is used for. It says it is a generator adapter. Is the idea that you connect a generator to a house socket and have power available in the house? If so might you be able to use an EV to do the same thing during a power cut?
Yes, it could theoretically be used to “backfeed” electricity from a diesel-powered generator to your home. But it’s a seriously bad idea to do so. There’s a reason they’re known as suicide cords!
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Err…. You can’t just put a plug a generator into a socket connected to your house electrics and feed power into your house.
DO NOT DO THIS!
I could theoretically warm my penis in my toaster, but in practice, I would be what scientists refer to as A REALLY ******* BAD IDEA!
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Haha… Sounds like something Claude Francois might’ve tried…!
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I’m going to become vegan and drive a moped that runs on farts and moonbeams the moment the countries that are actually destroying the planet stop doing so.
Whilst I still try to be as responsible as possible, I don’t see the need to make my life miserable if doing so achieves the cube root of Sweet Fanny Adams.
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I think everyones moved over to air fryers by the sound of it 
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Ooh a suntan too.
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Can’t find much about max power for V2G/V2H, but some cars and home chargers support as much as 11.5kW. V2H seems to be marketed more as a grid backup type solution that can isolate the house from the grid and power the house. I want it so that I can charge the car from surplus solar power from my rooftop solar, and provide power when I would be drawing from the grid, whilst of course keeping a certain minimum charge in the car. I think just that that could save me quite a lot of money.
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You could, but you would risk a very bad day for either yourself or someone else.
To start with your house is not designed to be fed from a standard socket somewhere on a random circuit - certainly stuff like earth leakage trips would not protect you from a fault.
More importantly unless isolated from the grid you would feed current back out which could be life threatening for anyone working on power lines that they believed were not energised. If you have grid connected solar the equipment does not work in a power cut for this very reason.
Finally if you are not isolated from the grid, and grid power returns the incoming AC will not be synchronised with the AC from your car and expensive damage will occur - probably to both your house wiring and also your vehicle.
So, just to reiterate, my post was extremely tongue in cheek and not to be taken seriously. At all.
Do I sense that you don’t think it’s a good idea…?
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Something like that
Apologies if this has been posted before but I have not been reading this thread. No doubt there is no reason to be worried.
Just to add some context to that fire which was a hybrid not a full EV.
Studies suggest electric vehicles (EVs) are significantly less likely to catch fire compared to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Here’s a breakdown of the ratio based on different sources:
20 to 80 times less likely: This is a broad range, but it highlights the significant reduction in fire risk with EVs. (Source: Green Car Stocks)
4 to 5 times less likely: This data comes from Norway, a leader in EV adoption. (Source: InsideEVs)
Twenty times less likely: This figure is based on a Swedish government report. (Source: Allied World Insurance)
Per 100,000 vehicles: Studies in the US show a ratio of 25.1 EV fires to 1,529 ICE fires. (Source: Verisk)