[VIDEO] – Joe Biden tells people they can just plug their homes into their EVs if the power runs out

by The Right Scoop

Joe Biden told a very receptive crowd at the White House that if they loser power in their homes, they can just plug their homes into their electric vehicles.

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While this is technically true with certain EVs, it takes a lot of money to do this. And that’s above and beyond the incredible amount it costs for the EV itself.

This is from a Car and Driver article this year on this very topic, explaining that only Ford has created the technology to do this:

EVs all have batteries large enough to theoretically power a home for several days. The trick is transferring the electrical energy from an EV into useful home AC power.

A number of cars—including the Nissan Leaf and VW EVs from 2022 forward—could theoretically do this, because they have what’s called bi-directional charging, meaning that power can flow both in and out of their batteries. But thus far, only Ford has announced the requisite components to make bi-directional charging work in a house. The system is called Intelligent Backup Power and it’s available in conjunction with the F-150 Lightning.

And here’s how much it would cost…

Of course, it’s not quite as simply as plugging a Lightning into your home charger and flipping a switch. First, you need the 19.2 kW Ford Charge Station Pro, which comes standard on extended-range models, but costs $1310 on its own.

You also need the Home Integration System. This is a sophisticated piece of power electronics that takes the high-current DC from the Charge Station Pro and converts into AC power usable in the house. It connects between your home’s utility power meter and your main power panel and disconnects your house power from grid power whenever you need this backup. It costs $3895.

Finally, you will need to pay an electrician to install these two pieces of electrical hardware, as well as the 80-amp wiring and some control wiring between them. That 80-amp wiring is the equivalent of two electric dryer circuits and isn’t strictly necessary unless you also want to harness the full 19.2 kW charging capacity of the Charge Station Pro. But it’s a thick cable that won’t be easy to run, particularly if your garage and basement and power panel location have finished walls. Depending on the size of your power panel, it might also need upsizing to accommodate this additional electrical load.

This is all in addition to that EV you just plucked nearly $45-50k on.

So yes, it is possible to do this. But Biden makes it sound so easy, when it’s far from easy and for most people with EVs it’s not even possible.

Honestly, you could buy a natural gas generator for A LOT less – even a big one.

But the bigger point here is that this is the kind of expensive technology that Biden and his radical leftists are trying to force on people with his war on oil and gas. I think the technology is great, but not at the expense of oil and gas. Let people who can afford it buy it and use it. But stop trying to ‘transition’ people into the expensive green energy arena by making oil and gas more expensive.


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