Hey everybody Rob Mower here and today we are talking about vehicle to grid and

bi-directional charging technology. These topics seem to have caught theirectional charging technology.

These topics seem to have caught the attention of the Tesla community in particular this week.

Then we have a couple other notes to go through on Tesla as well as some news on the Mazda

MX30, which has begun production.

All right, we'll start off with vehicle to grid.

This has been a concept that's been explored for a long time.

Some electric vehicles actually had this capability.

This just means using the energy stored in the battery pack of a vehicle to provide power to the grid or to your house for example.

This first caught a lot of attention with the Reuters article published last week that we had talked about, which had the title exclusive Tesla's secret batteries

aim to rework the math for electric cars and the grid.

That article talked about Tesla's ambitions for a million mile power train, which would include

a million mile battery pack, and the opening paragraph read that

Tesla plans to quote allow EV batteries to have second and third lives in the electric

power grid end quote so a lot of people seem to assume that this meant vehicle to

grid technology.

Reuters never said anything about vehicle to grid technology in this article.

I suppose you could technically interpret having second and third lives in the electric power grid

as a statement of multi-purpose functionality that might imply

vehicle to grid, but to me second and third lives is a serial concept, it's numbered

list, it's part of a series. So my own interpretation of that was implying that after it was used for an electric

vehicle, the battery pack could then be reused in the future for stationary storage. Now we'll talk a little bit more in a second about how that may have been an incorrect interpretation, but the overall point stands

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