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Are you on NEM instead of NEM2? The basic charge for TOU-D-Prime on NEM2 is 0.40 per day. In a 30 day month, that would be $12. If your bill is less than $12 for a 30 day month, then you must not be on NEM2 or you have credits somewhere that reduces your bill below $12.

None of the cars that have free charging today can do V2H as they are not bidirectional. Only future cars with this feature will support V2H. And none of those cars will be offered lifetime free charging, at least from Tesla. And if other companies or hotels offer free charging, Tesla won't care.

The PWs would make the whole home generator obsolete, no?

There are lots and lots of installs that Tesla did right and you don't hear about. 8 weeks from quote to install for me. 2 weeks for PTO after that. May have been even faster but I slowed it down by submitting a price matching quote to Tesla (yes, I found a local guy willing to undercut Tesla...

When would you want to charge and discharge at the same time? If you are charging, then that means you already have an energy source.

Bi-directional charging means AC to DC going in and DC to AC going out all while using the same hardware. Tesla won't have to add an all new DC to AC inverter, they would simply replace the diodes with transformers on their current design. There are videos on Youtube about this. It's simple...

Will Tesla ever let tesla owners use their EV to power the house? Yes, of course. The technology is already available. They already have TEG (the brains of the system). Whether you put dumb powerwalls or rolling batteries on the other side is trivial. In a couple of years when essentially...

I would assume that your house used it? Power that was generated from solar either goes to Powerwall, grid, or house.

The bill that was shown to be -$10.77 is really $18.23 if the $29 California credit is taken out. But yes, generally your bill may be lower since you have Powerwall and your NBC will be lower. And I'm not doubting that Prime is a better plan for you because as you stated, there are many factors.

If you are a net producer for the full year, and by that I mean if after the 12 month period, you have a credit and not a bill, then it is almost assuredly true that you should be on the TOU 4-9 and not the Prime plan. Take a look at the two monthly bills below. The firs is the Prime and...

The comment is for SCE customers. I don't know enough about PGE plans

SCE Prime TOU is great for people with EV and no solar. Generally, if you have solar, you would be better off with the TOU 4-9 plan for 2 reasons. 1. The mandatory daily charge will add ~$10/month to the bill. This is on top of NBC. Your monthly bill is likely $18-$24. Monthly bill on TOU...

This tweet is a classic "Look at the squirrel". Lol. Anything so people will stop talking about that solar roof

If not Tesla, someone else will implement. And I don't think it will be that long. Do a search for Mitsubishi. Sunny boy allows it's inverter to have a power outlet during power outage. Sure, maybe you'll have to disconnect from the grid during the outage but there's no technical reason why...

In theory, it had the capability to do it but was never implemented