[TexasGator]

“You posted: “My cars suit idle most days.” Hence, I was telling you how to take advantage of different power rates in the day without having to spend money on an EV you’d hardly drive.”

I still need to drive. Your option doesn’t allow that.

[Tell It Right]

My suggestion involves keeping your ICE cars. No need to replace them with an expensive EV if you don’t drive enough for the gas savings to warrant the EV cost. If your only interest in an EV is to use as backup power and rate swaps, you can accomplish that with an inverter and batteries in a much cheaper and more efficient way.

For example, my inverters allow me to control when the grid pulls and greed feeds would happen— not the utility controlling it. I don’t have that kind of control with the EV—I can’t tell it to put power onto the grid.

One thing I’d be concerned about with the utility controlling it is they’d decide when my EV battery is drained. I might need to drive after they drained the EV. If you instead implement it with home batteries, draining those doesn’t mean lack of mobility. It would mean having to pull from the grid (presumably with cheaper rates).