ItsNotAboutTheMoney
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More generally, it's a V2L capability. V2H has been mentioned a lot, but it has other utility for work or play.That doesn't make sense. My over-arching point is we don't live in a perfect world where VTG actually has the net benefits people think it has. Ford might need the VTG gimmick to sell their poorly engineered, overweight, poor-handling trucks for a very high price and add to their margins by selling this high margin option, but Tesla doesn't need that and will not offer it. This will not turn out to be a strategic mistake.
If you need or want the feature that bad, please switch to Ford. Tesla is not worried. And for good reason. I don't expect you to see it how I see it but I'm confident this is the smart, forward-thinking decision. Tesla should not be tempted to add every feature some of their customers think they want. They don't need to do that either.
I volunteer at the Portland/South Portland, ME NDEW event and I can easily think of a way in which V2L would be useful there.
Now imagine contractors at work sites powering a bunch of power tools, and charging batteries.