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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

12 May 2024 | GM Shows Bidirectional Charing, Used EV Prices Aligning With Fossil Cars and Cybertruck Won’t Get Self Driving Tech Anytime Soon

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to EV News Daily. Coming up today, GM shows off their bidirectional charging, used EV

0:05.8

EV prices are aligning with fossil cars, and the cyber truck won't get its self-driving tech any time soon.

0:12.5

Plus stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why Rivian are keeping the R2 reservation numbers under their hat.

0:19.1

Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever

0:21.7

you are in the world. Welcome to EV News Daily, your trusted source of EV information. I'm Martin

0:25.9

Lee, and I go through every EV story, so you don't have to. We'll start with news of General Motors

0:30.7

showcasing their bidirectional charging technology with a Silverado EV powering what was pretty much

0:36.6

a mansion.

0:37.7

GAM unveiled their new energy suite that allows power sharing between EVs and homes.

0:43.5

The GM Energy PowerShift charger is the actual bidirectional charger itself,

0:49.0

and that will set you back $1,700.

0:52.8

The GM Energy V2H, that's vehicle to home. V2H enablement kit is priced at $5,600. That includes an ACDC

1:03.6

inverter, the Home Hub, the load management computer, and the Dark Start battery. The bundled package

1:10.7

of the charger and the enablement kit

1:13.3

is now available for $7,299. That excludes installation costs and that, of course, will vary

1:21.7

perhaps wildly according to your own situation. Now, GM has partnered with Q Merritt,

1:26.9

the National EV Charging installeraller, to do the customer

1:30.3

installations at the demo, which many journalists were invited to.

1:35.1

GM powered, like I said, this huge house, like a whole mansion.

1:38.5

They flipped the main breaker and switched to the Silverado EV.

1:42.8

It took about 35, 40 seconds to do the transition. That is not an

1:47.4

uninterruptible power source in case you were wondering. So less than a minute, but they know

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