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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

People use electricity generator in those situations too.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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

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