A mother used her EV to power her son's dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout
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Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural disasters.

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.

One answer could be to croudsource it. A mesh network of generative and storage nodes, like someone with solar and a home battery, but large enough to backfeed as needed. Perhaps on an hoa/neighborhood scale. If it could be incentivizes and achieved without undercutting the grid then it could eliminate the need for peaker plants

That would be helpful, however knowing people they’d unplug their shared car battery and save it because “me first.”

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