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There never was any follow up to the press release above.
The research article that came out of it was probably this one.
Assessing the stationary energy storage equivalency of vehicle-to-grid charging battery electric vehiclesThe main conclusion I get from this
Vehicle-to-grid-based energy storage has less overall flexibility compared to stationary energy storage.
It is better to buy a Powerwall as battery backup than try to use your car.
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There's an interesting talk about the battery survey results collected by Plugin America. here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLUUfmRkRcAHis talk is very cautious and careful not to dramatise the results. You only get a sense of possible negative data in the Q and A at the end.
I think the most interesting part of the talk is his analysis of the cost of battery deterioration per kWh throughput. He suggests a cost of 40 cents for each kWh cycled through the battery. He uses this to inform the economic reality of using V2G.
For our Soul EVs, if hypothetically a replacement battery costs $6,000USD and lasts only 1000 cycles (160,000km) then the cost of battery deterioration per kWh throughput is about 45 cents.
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