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More and more, homeowners are keeping the lights on using their electric vehicles during power outages

Power outages due to the weather jumped 78% between 2011 and 2021.

MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. — In early March, strong winds brought down trees and power lines in the Nashville area, leaving thousands of homes without power. But about 20 miles outside the city an electric pickup truck fed energy to John and Rachelle Reigards home, keeping their lights on.

Homeowners are beginning to turn their electric vehicles (EVs) into sources of backup power as the grids that supply electricity struggle to deal with the extreme weather linked to climate change. Experts predict that EVs will soon become more than transport options, serving multiple functions, including generating power for the home. Pedro Pizarro, of Edison International, said that by soaking up power when its abundant and releasing it when its scarce, EVs can become “a bigger rubber ban...

Https://twitter.com/bobhathaway7/status/1590686723972931586?s=20 I had a chance to drive a Ford F-150 Lightning a few weeks ago at a special event designed for Michigan Legislators in Lansing. The experience is less like what we expect from a typical truck, and more what we might imagine to pilot a starship. Incredibly smooth, the much-vaunted EV acceleration is exactly…

Some energy experts say battery-powered vehicles will increasingly help keep the lights on and support electric grids, rather than straining them.

Electric grids are increasingly straining and buckling during extreme weather linked to climate change, including in lengthy heat waves, intense storms and devastating floods.

ChatGPT is the next step in artificial intelligence. It’s smarter than Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. It uses its vast knowledge to answer questions, write essays, write computer code and help with tasks such as lesson plans. FGCU is grappling with what to do with the artificial intelligence software that the San Francisco-based company Open AI released to the public last November.

Companies including Ford, General Motors and Google Nest have formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants (VPPs), which could help increase the resilience of electricity grids.

GM will soon offer the Chevy Silverado EV with bi-directional charging