In the midst of Hurricane Alfred and beyond, there were more than 450,000 homes in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales at some point in the past week. Even a few days after Alfred has become a bilateral former hurricane, there are still more than 120,000 drugs without strength.
But some homes – including those that have home batteries and EV owners with a technology loading vehicle – have managed to keep their devices ongoing and their lights. Ev owners in particular were moving to social media to report how their batteries helped them in wheels operating their homes in the storm.
The technology from a vehicle to loading (V2L) allows sending energy from the car battery to external devices-although all EVS have the V2L capacity, including the most popular EVS in Australia yet, the Tesla Y and Model 3.
Chris Baker, director of Sunshine Hydro, a company that suggests combining hydro with green hydrogen production to support adult customers in Queensland, to LinkedIn to share that Nissan Lev 2013 kept the lights and refrigerators that work.
“With a simple reflector connected to a 12V battery, we keep fresh food, charged phones and laptops,” Baker wrote. “The paper remains running so that it continues to recharge the 12V system of the main battery.
“The moment is a reminder of the extent of the lack of energy only from supply, but about synchronization – combining all the resources available to keep things run when they are more important.
“It is also a lesson that energy storage, not just energy production, is the backbone of energy flexibility.”
Meanwhile, in a post in Hyundai Ev Australians, one of the owners of EV said that his family was, “saved it 24 Kona EV”.
The Brisbane -based family, which was overwhelmed by the water without strength for two and a half days, has connected an extension wire in the car and managed to operate their refrigerator, freezer, microwave, kettle, lighting and phones, and helping them get cups of coffee for their neighbors.
This label said they currently used about 18 percent of their battery power, and they were estimated that they were able to continue standing on his feet for another a few days if the energy was not operated again.
Meanwhile, another poster in the MG4 owners group said on Facebook that his family relied on MG4 for power for 36 hours, after which they managed to run “the refrigerator, devices, kettle and coffee machine (vitality).”
This poster said that thanks to his family’s consumption, they lost about 10 percent of their daily ability, and they may have continued a week if necessary.
Another poster occurs on a drug far from using its EV to run the house, the ability to drive to an area where the network energy provides, the EV battery, then driving to the house to run the house again.
Of course, it will be better than relying on EV for your power is a future that is free from power outages – but in the face of natural disasters, which in Australia can range from floods to fires to heat waves, which is expected to increase, the electric car may undertake the role of the savior in power from the old trusted generator.
Professor Jake Whitheid, head of politics at the Electric Vehicles Council, is in Brisbane. On Saturday, after losing the authority at his home, Whitehead’s house managed to use Kia EV9 and Ford F-150 Lightning to operate devices.
“It is clear that Australia is fully exposed in terms of the effect of natural disasters, and with climate change, we expect that both the frequency and intensity of these types of events will increase only,” said Whiteheed. “Therefore, we need to be flexible on it.”
Whiteheed said the weekend events highlighted that EVS was not just a cleaner way than transportation, but she had the ability to be a home energy security beach.
He said: “Electric cars are not just a substitute for a gasoline or diesel, it is of added value, because you get access to this battery that you can use for other purposes and in daily life.”
“This may be the ability to provide cheap strength to your home, or sell energy to the network, but in these natural disaster events, we can be more flexible, benefit from that power and bring those time periods in which the network is declining.
“In some cases, the essential things like keeping your cold food may be, but in many cases it can be a savior of life, especially when people ask for medical devices that work on electricity.”
