Are EVs Actually Good Backup Home Generators?

The Washington Post seems to think so.

If you haven’t caught on by now that corporate America, including all the big media outlets, is doing a full-court press to get you interested in electric cars, I want to know what rock you’ve been living under. The pressure is getting intense but as people sitting in boardrooms high up in ivory towers keep talking down to the average person, I also think resistance to EVs is actually galvanizing.

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One of the latest shameless plugs for electric vehicles has come via the Washington Post as it peddles the idea of EVs acting as emergency home generators. What’s even better, the publication is telling everyone that “the house and car will merge” because your EV will plug into the home like some giant USB drive.

Of course, WaPo tells a dramatic story about a guy living in rural New Mexico when the power went out during the winter. With no electricity the furnace wouldn’t run and the father wasn’t man enough to get the fireplace going, so he turned to his Chevy Bolt for a solution but couldn’t figure that out immediately. Please don’t die from laughter because this situation is portrayed in such a serious tone it’s hard to swallow.

The guy got a power inverter so the next time the electricity was out at home he could run everything off his Chevy. During the next outage the story declares the guy’s house was the only one illuminated in the neighborhood, so he showed everyone who’s the real man even though he can’t light a fire.