Australian woman used her BYD electric car to power her son's dialysis machine during a blackout

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• 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

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  • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Power can’t be generated anyways, only transformed.

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    • 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.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s a giant UPS on wheels.

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• jaschen@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So many Chinese bots lately.

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this bot is a moderator and iirc pulls posts directly from reddit. it might be a Chinese bot that posted it in Reddit, but not on Lemmy.

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    • jaschen@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for the context. Just seems like there are so many articles about BYD lately.

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• tmjaea@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice. V2D is a nice use case every ev should provide

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  • lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of EVs have this built in, some even include V2H so they can backfeed inverted AC to your home via the charger, but it isn’t mentioned anywhere on most product pages (f150 lightning being the worst instance of this; it has a 10kW V2H inverter and there is no mention of that anywhere on its page!)

    In the other discussion thread one user noted they even had issues locating a V2H charger at all to purchase, so I guess the manufacturers don’t want to explicitly set up their users for disappointment…

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    • TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The big problem is V2L/V2H isn’t a part of the CCS or NACS standards, so each manufacturer is out doing their own thing that doesn’t work with anyone else’s thing. Makes it more expensive (specialized hardware/software), and complicates changes down the road.

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Locomotives have done this for small towns. Ships have done this for coastal cities.

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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If bots have to post articles, can they at least check for duplicates first

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  An Australian woman used her BYD electric car to run her son’s dialysis machine after a huge storm left her without power.

  After flash flooding knocked out electricity across southeast Queensland on Christmas Day, Kristy Holmes used her Atto 3, which is made by Chinese EV giant and Tesla rival BYD, to power her 11-year-old son’s dialysis machine, according to a Guardian report.

  Holmes told The Guardian that her son Levi, who is waiting to receive a kidney transplant, could have faced life-threatening consequences were it not for the Atto 3’s “vehicle to load” feature, which allows it to charge household appliances with excess power from the car’s battery.

  The fact that some EVs are capable of acting as power generators on wheels makes them especially useful during major blackouts caused by extreme weather and natural disasters.

  When Hurricane Ian hammered the Florida coast in 2022, Ford saw a 127% increase in the number of people using their F-150 lightning electric pickups as power sources.

  Ford CEO Jim Farley posted on X that hurricane-hit drivers were using their trucks to cook meals and power lights.

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  The original article contains 371 words, the summary contains 185 words. Saved 50%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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