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A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout | Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural... (www.zmescience.com)
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A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout | Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural...::Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural disasters.

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[–] lepinkainen 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The difference is that a generator you might use every two years is likely to fail when you need it unless you carefully maintain it regularly.

You use your car every day, you’ll notice if it breaks and take care of it immediately.

[–] kameecoding 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You use your car every day

Not everyone lives in North America mate

[–] lepinkainen 6 points 11 months ago

I don’t live in NA either and work from home. I still use my car more often than a theoretical generator

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My generator tests itself once a week, automatically cuts over during an outage, and costs ~$200 a year for scheduled maintenance that I can’t be arsed to do anymore at this stage of my life. Generators don’t have to be a huge headache.

[–] lepinkainen 4 points 11 months ago

How much did you pay for a fancy generator like that?