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Motability’s Power Wheels project to trial EVs as a power-cut lifeline for people with disabilities
Dangers faced by Motability customers during power cuts could be solved with EVs

A power cut is an inconvenience for most of us but for people who rely on electricity to run essential mobility or medical equipment, it can be a lot more serious. A new project will explore how electric cars could power the homes of people with disabilities or medical dependencies in the UK during power outages.

With funding from Ofgem, Motability Operations (the company behind the Motability Scheme) has set up the ‘Power Wheels’ project. Focusing on homes in the North East of England, the goal of the project is to see how electric cars could essentially act as temporary back-up generators for homes and thus keep vital medical equipment running during any supply disruptions.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/369004/motabilitys-power-wheels-project-trial-evs-power-cut-lifeline-people-disabilities

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Putting my electrical head on, surely an EV needs to be V2L as an absolute minimum which not all EV’s are capeable of doing and V2H is even rarer?

Will be intereresting to follow.

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