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Ford, Honda, and BMW create a new vehicle-to-grid company to help EV owners save money (www.theverge.com)

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The new company, ChargeScape, will create a platform that can be used by both utilities and EV owners to benefit from the expected surge in mobile batteries plugged into the grid.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I owned an EV I would be too worried about battery degradation caused by the extra charge cycles to participate in anything like this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

@MutatedBass @ZeroCool I've seen somewhere mentioned that the batteries of EVs now 15+ years old didn't degrade that much, people still get a lot of range out of them.