A plug in hybrid wouldn't have been any better, my power was out for almost two weeks, I had nowhere to plug it in.
All you need are some solar panels at home and a smart inverter that can do backup.
I predict at least a few solar inverter manufacturers will team up with EV manufacturers to allow the use of EVs as energy storage for a solar backup system.
No. This is the most ridiculous statement! Do the math!
"Oh, well, my battery died, and I'm at the campground, and it's cloudy, so I'm going to have to wait a few weeks, maybe a month or two before I have enough juice to get home"......
Sorry, not trying to be mean, just do the math
Edit: Here's some math
Assume a good solar panel... 15 watts per square foot? In bright sunlight.
Assume the car needs 85kWh for a charge, and let's assume... 80% conversion efficiency from the panels to the car? That's probably high but oh well.
So you need about 106kWh.
Let's say you have a thousand square feet of solar panel. A huge panel array! In bright sunlight you should get 15kWh from these panels and you *should* be able to charge in 7 hours? Well, you probably won't get 7 hours of bright direct sunlight unless you're in specific geopraphical areas, but it's a day more or less, if it's not raining. Or snowing. Or cloudy. Etc.
Ok, so nobody has that much panel. Let's say it's your typical 100W outdoor panel, you could afford half a dozen of them. So you have 600W. Well, it's going to take almost 180 hours... Of direct sunlight. So let's say you get 8 hours of that per day, you're looking at... 22 days? Now if it is cloudy, it's, what, twice that? Or more? If it's raining or snowing, even worse?
It's not feasible, not practical, and not going to be any time in the relatively near future.