'Leaf to Home': A charging system that powers your EV (and then some)
In response to Japan's power crunch resulting from the Fukushima disaster, Nissan unveils a two-way charging system that makes it possible for your home to be powered by your car during power shortages.
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We are going to need this some day to power the devices being engineered right now at Sandia National Labs. I know its a running joke in the biz about needing 1.21 GIGAWATTS to power a flux capacitor. But in reality, to power the massive proton particle beams being developed at Sandia, we are going to need to shed load from 5 to 10 power stations in a single region. It will not need to be for more than 5 to 10 minutes at a time. If people could just get by without power for that.... More
Really interesting concept....if/when there are millions of electric vehicles in the hands of US consumers, there becomes an enormous collective battery to smooth out the peaks and valleys between cheap nighttime 'base load' power, and expensive daytime 'peak load' power. Say there are 5 million electrics in 10 years......X 25 KWh per......that's a LOT of juice for 2PM when it's 90 degrees and all the air conditioners in the country are running at once.
Sure, this isn't the point of.... More
"could power the average Japanese home, appliances and all, for two days if needed." - Average American home, appliances, a/c and all will sqeeze the battery dry in 3 hours. No doubt about it.
Why doesn't the motor charge battery while it operates. People spnd housand of dollars for portable generaters, wen your vehicle is right there. Te technology is there- locked up. We need to unlock this energy source. I think the electric companies are cringing.
To use the motor to charge the battery you would have to have a power source other than the battery it's charging and using at the same time. The only thing you can do is have regenerative braking on the vehicle where when you brake, the brakes generate electricity and feed it back into the battery, which they already have, but it won't replenish as much as you use to drive the vehicle...
The Leaf has no gasoline motor; it's 100% electric.
It does not have a motor.
