Yeah it’s a giant UPS on wheels.
Comment on Australian woman used her BYD electric car to power her son's dialysis machine during a blackout
bfg9k@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A BYD electric car acted as a life-saving power generator during extreme weather in Australia.
Batteries are not generators, they’re storage
There is no power being generated
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
anlumo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Power can’t be generated anyways, only transformed.
bfg9k@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Energy can’t be created, yes. From what I understand though electrical power is generated by conversion of energy, as in the electrical potential did not exist before and after ‘generation’ of power the potential exists.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
By that logic a battery is a generator, since it converts chemical potential energy into electricity.
Generators, as typically understood, convert mechanical energy into electricity.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 10 months ago
Nah it’s akin to a gas tank. It isn’t generating gasoline, just storing it for later use.