Excerpts from Tesla’s Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel’s recent presentations about the integration of energy storage and electric vehicles into the grid, leads us to believe that Tesla Motors is likely working on a bi-directional home charging station. I am talking about a charger that could not only charge your car’s battery pack, but also draw electricity from it to power your home, or to feed back into the grid, not unlike Tesla’s Powerwall.

Nissan was working on something similar with their “LEAF to Home” program a few years ago, but we haven’t heard about the project in a while. At first, it aimed at providing power in case of emergencies, something the Japanese company felt compelled to deliver when the country was still recovering from the tsunami and the frequent power outages in the aftermath.
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