We Asked Experts if Powering Your Home With an EV Is the Future

The numbers say that EVs are a small fraction of the vehicles on roads — they account for only 9% of light-duty vehicle sales in the third quarter of 2024 — however, the rate at which EV technology is developing is astonishing.

The new frontier for EVs is called bidirectional charging, where your car’s big battery could provide backup power to your home during a power outage. Companies like Ford, GM, Volvo and Tesla have all adopted bidirectional charging on some models in their lineups, and many more manufacturers intend to have it available on all their models by 2025 and 2026. With the figure of EVs sold growing quickly — with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimating 30 to 42 million EVs in the US by 2030 — what’s new with EVs goes beyond saving money on gas or helping to reduce carbon emissions.

We Asked Experts if Powering Your Home With an EV Is the Future