Of course! The idea would be you would provide your battery service at a price that made sense to you!
At $9/kWh (which is a truly absurd rate) the battery pays for itself in roughly 12 cycles.
At a less insane but still hefty $1/kWh margin, it would pay for itself in roughly 100 cycles.
Of course you wouldn’t scrap your whole EV, you would buy a new battery for your EV with the profits, and ideally end up with both excess income, and a longer overall vehicle lifespan, with longer effective ranges over time.
I’m sure someone has done all the math on this and knows exactly how good and cheap the EV battery has to be in order for this to be worth doing, and it seems like we’re nearly there.
Plus, with the same hardware plus a safety switch in the house, the EV becomes your house battery backup as well.
At $9/kWh (which is a truly absurd rate) the battery pays for itself in roughly 12 cycles.
At a less insane but still hefty $1/kWh margin, it would pay for itself in roughly 100 cycles.
Of course you wouldn’t scrap your whole EV, you would buy a new battery for your EV with the profits, and ideally end up with both excess income, and a longer overall vehicle lifespan, with longer effective ranges over time.
I’m sure someone has done all the math on this and knows exactly how good and cheap the EV battery has to be in order for this to be worth doing, and it seems like we’re nearly there.
Plus, with the same hardware plus a safety switch in the house, the EV becomes your house battery backup as well.