Yup. Hopefully this year.
So, there you are, you just charged up overnight and are sitting with an 80% battery.
They'll pay more than you pay. If they didn't, nobody would help and they'd be faced with brownouts or equipment damage if the peaker plant doesn't respond to an outage or increase in demand fast enough.
If you have powerwall or other battery like the CT's battery, plus solar, you can store your excess panel production, Some utilities will now pay you a standby fee to act as grid backup for outages, where they could tap your battery. Yes, you will need to refill it, so this works under two conditions - where you are paid a fee for standby plus a premium kwh rate for use during a crisis, OR where you produce your own electricity.
...people are being paid to participate. Usually it's quite profitable. Charge when power is plentiful on the grid, discharge during times of high need (extreme cold, heat, etc. usually). But even just charging a little extra over night, then discharging a big when you get home (everyone gets home and the grid utilization goes up usually) pays.
The Cybertruck has the equivalent of around 9 Powerwalls of energy available. (It can’t provide as much power (watts) at once as the Powerwalls do, but that’s a completely different thing.) The system would take power from the Cybertruck when there is a severe peak in energy demand on the grid—which usually lasts for only a few hours, then you can recharge later when things are back to normal, such as when nightfall arrives. (You can set things so as not to drain the battery more than you want it to, should you have any traveling to do before you have an opportunity to recharge.) You will get paid a lot more for the electricity that you sent out then for what you have to pay to recharge.)
I agree with this. Step one on the road to Powerwall compatibility. Also, another effort to support the community and the grid which is arguably more important than extending the battery capacity of individual homes. Good news overall IMO.
The only problem with that is that the UTILITIES get to control WHERE they get the power from! Right now we have 2 powerwall 3's (27 kWh's worth) and I would LOVE IT if SCE would buy the power from them, but they only do so during 'special' events, which boils down to 1 time per month from May through October via the Tesla Virtual Power Plant (VPP) we signed up for with our solar power system...
Literally 1% of CT owners
It’s so frustrating. It’s been almost 2 years I have owned the truck and over a year since I got PowerShare installed. It just sits there. I recently wrote a [snail mail] letter to Tesla asking for an update. No response.
It would make sense if it extends your home battery solar system. Where as, you prioritize charging the home batteries first thing when the sun comes up (with excess electricity) then begin charging the Truck. As night time comes, discharge the home batteries and once those are depleted, you start discharging the truck next (to your predefined limit). This process just repeats basically daily. This means you don't have to invest in 3 or 4 Powerwall's which are very pricey per Kwh of storage.
I had a deposit in for the Range Extender and they refunded it when they cancelled the product. I wanted both the Powershare and the Range Extender for different reasons. In many ways Tesla over delivered with the Cybertruck, but with Powershare and range they really underdelivered. And the wiper and the rearview mirror. I know that many here love the wiper and have no use for rearview mirrors. That is fine. These are just my opinions.
