Electric Vehicle Removable 24 kWh Battery for Powering Home as well

[Garret]

Tesla plans release of new high capacity battery for off-vehicle use.  Also Nissan EV battery touted as backup for home/solar storage; so far only available in Japan.  I'm sure others here have thought of it, I was considering a plugin electric vehicle/hybrid as a place to put any excess solar when I expand output potential.

Check out: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/11/8023443/tesla-home-consumer-battery-elon-musk and http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/3054451/nissan-leaf-to-home-electric-charger.

[atop8918]

In a previous life I worked for a company that built equipment to do just this kind of thing. Charge your EV battery at night when tariffs are down, power your house from the battery with excess juice when needed, provide local grid "buffering" through EV batteries. A good idea that was ahead of its time. Predictably they got bought by a behemoth with no original ideas of their own and driven into the ground. I'm glad Tesla and Nissan are resurrecting the idea.

[stuman]

I so want a 48 volt NEV.  Jumper to my batteries for charging...drive to town and back a time or two on a charge...if not using it, additional battery storage for home.