The goal is to get your car to keep the lights on during blackouts.
it would be a feature in its 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV). GM and PG&E said this technology would be coupled with “software-defined communications protocols” that would automatically direct that power into homes when PG&E’s electric supply shuts off.
notes, there are still key process details the two companies are trying to determine, such as whether the power transfer will happen directly through the vehicles or another piece of equipment. Still, Rick Spina, PG&E’s vice president of EV commercialization, toldhe “could envision” this tech being utilized on a state-wide scale, with customers given some sort of benefit to “feed power back into the grid” when there is high demand.