ajdelange
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An inverter is a one way device that inverts DC every half cycle making it into AC. A device that turns AC into DC does so by making sure that the current always flows in the same direction. This is called a rectifier.No other Tesla on the market has this capacity. Currently the inverters they use are 1-way and can only turn AC into DC to stuff into your battery.
It is pretty clear that this inverter is only for energizing the AC outlets in the bed (and elsewhere if they have them elsewhere).They are going to have some kind of inverter onboard for providing AC power, but it's not clear if that will feed back through the charging cable or not.
If they ever do allow the CT to become part of a V2G system the interface to the inverter will probably be high voltage DC connected directly (through fuses and contactors) to the battery with the rectifier/inverter in an external box but that's not the only way they could do it. That external box would probably look to the grid very much like a Powerwall.
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