Nissan Leaf System Car Powers Homes

A lot of american homes was left with no power last July 8 because of a violent storm. This is a very interesting story in Tokyo wherein particularly in Ginza a shopping place in the heart of Tokyo, customers here who are wanting to buy a car does something not anyone in the whole world can do - that is visiting a Nissan dealer and buys electric Leaf which will help with their homes energy supply. This simply means that you the car powers the home and the home powers the car.

On an interview made by ABC to vice president of Nissan for Strategic Planning and Business Development Ken Screbnik says, "If there is a power disruption, you can keep things running,". "Depending on the size of the home, the power from your car can be used to power your home for about two days."

Each of the customer who purchase the Leaf to Home system is an industry first and is a remarkable game changer talking about energy management.

How does this work? The Power is moved going to your home on an EV power station unit which allows power to be stored in the Leaf's battery which will be sent going to your homes.

In U.S. only a few still uses this kind of system namely San Diego, Boulder, Colorado and Westerville and Ohio. Department of Energy invested of about 3.4 billion on this project but is still lagging behind.

Jim Northup further explained that "Residential vehicle-to-grid integration is about 10 years off the in the United States," vice president for power and energy added, "It will start in the U.S. with more fleet-size vehicles, I would imagine within the next five years we will see commercial vehicle-to-grid integration."


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