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Extremely unlikely because it doesn't align with the financial incentives of the power companies to improve infra to support mass V2G when those batteries are not guaranteed to be available in the first place

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A recent episode[0] of the catalyst podcast makes a pretty convincing argument that in aggregate, car behavior is so predictable that V2X could be a valuable asset.

0: https://pca.st/episode/77c6a8a5-4967-4a71-9da0-f1ab7d56c703

The problem is getting people to actually agree to plug in their car and let the power company run it. That's a huge ask to get people to agree to, it's going to take serious compensation that power companies won't want to do.

Why not? Where I live, consumers already get compensated ca €0,08 per kWh generated by their solar panels. At peak times, where spot prices are sometimes €0,3 or more, they could pay extra for people who want to provide power from batteries.

It won't. Simple argument why should people allow adding more cycles to their batteries in their expensive cars.

For money, of course.

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