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Study: EVs with V2H cut household electricity costs and need for home batteries

https://adelaide.edu.au/about/news/2026/electric-vehicles-the-key-to-more-efficient-home-energy-use/
14•giuliomagnifico•2h ago

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dwood_dev•1h ago
I'm looking at a new car later this year. The limited options for V2H are disappointing.
soco•1h ago
As far as I know, in Switzerland they are (still?) blocked by law, might be some market protection or something...
dangus•1h ago
The success of V2H partially depends on it being a technology that’s not just for nerds. It has to be something where the user just plugs in to their house and doesn’t have to think about it. Their energy use is optimized and their vehicle is charged up for the next day.

The other part of this is that all these things sound great, but single family homes with cars as the primary method of transport is a losing strategy for global sustainability. The best way to reduce global oil consumption is to reduce the number of trips people choose to take with cars.

Electric cars, V2H, that stuff is all something of a band-aid compared to building infrastructure that makes it safe and convenient for me to cycle to work or take the bus.

Even in the United States where single family homes are probably more prominent than anywhere else, something like 40% of people don’t live in a single family home.

supertrope•42m ago
This is the real ultimate solution to energy security and climate change. However there are many entrenched interests behind car culture. Auto manufacturers. Auto parts suppliers. Car dealers. The banks that sell car loans. Car insurance companies. Oil companies. The majority of governments and voters are okay with spending trillions on highways, roads, and parking. But ask them to upgrade public transit into something useful instead of an awful quality social welfare service and the anti-tax forces come out in force.
pingou•1h ago
But that would accelerate the vehicle's depreciation, which is costly. I suspect it would make more financial sense to have a home battery, they should have compared the prices of home batteries vs car batteries. And for the national grid effects, just charging your vehicle when electricity prices are the lowest would have mostly the same effect but would be a lot simpler.
supertrope•51m ago
If there is a net benefit for both the vehicle owner and the utility, the utility should pay the owner. A school district bought battery electric school buses with a subsidy from the utility on the purchase price.
thelastgallon•1h ago
V2G is what we should focus on. Tens (eventually hundreds) of millions of EVs soaking up free power that is being curtailed during the day, supplying power back to the grid later in the evening at peak prices, replacing peaker plants.
zihotki•6m ago
Did they take into account aging and depreciation of the vehicle battery, which is crazy expensive? It makes negative sense to use v2h with current limited cycles batteries of cars. These batteries are optimized for charging speed and power density.

There are much more cheaper and better suited batteries for houses built using other chemistries, they are bigger and heavier and that's fine for a house as long as they live 10y+.

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https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b
121•cmitsakis•47m ago•35 comments

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go from Here?

https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here
65•aphyr•52m ago•32 comments

€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/unexpected-54k-billing-spike-in-13-hours-firebase-browser-key-wit...
269•zanbezi•2h ago•181 comments

IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?yzh=28197
524•Aaronmacaron•1d ago•335 comments

Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-platform/
34•nikitoci•1h ago•11 comments

Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-for-agents/
30•jilles•1h ago•10 comments

Mozilla Thunderbolt

https://www.thunderbolt.io/
29•dabinat•1h ago•23 comments

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

https://darkbloom.dev
364•twapi•10h ago•177 comments

AI cybersecurity is not proof of work

https://antirez.com/news/163
72•surprisetalk•3h ago•25 comments

Show HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month

44•absurdwebsite•1h ago•17 comments

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

https://daedal.io/@thomzane/116410863009847575
250•pabs3•10h ago•159 comments

Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide

https://www.lighterra.com/articles/
84•Flex247A•4d ago•10 comments

Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/2026_Akbari_Nature_s...
37•Metacelsus•3h ago•19 comments

Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

https://blog.calif.io/p/codex-hacked-a-samsung-tv
100•campuscodi•3h ago•73 comments

PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closure-optimizations
31•moebrowne•2d ago•4 comments

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html
495•dbreunig•1d ago•181 comments

Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800046.801649
13•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun
129•airhangerf15•10h ago•31 comments

Fly Drones from the Browser

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4•mosfets•3d ago•1 comments

The paper computer

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194•jsomers•3d ago•55 comments

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ramain/jobs/bwtwd9W-founding-gtm-operations-lead
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ChatGPT for Excel

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259•armcat•17h ago•166 comments

North American English Dialects

https://aschmann.net/AmEng/
74•skogstokig•10h ago•37 comments

Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick

https://heather.cafe/posts/too_much_xor_swap_trick/
112•CJefferson•3d ago•71 comments

Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-a-high-volume-metrics-pipeline-with-opentelemetry-...
54•jmarbach•9h ago•11 comments

Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/apple-accelerates-progress-with-highest-ever-recycled-mate...
58•salkahfi•2h ago•51 comments

Cal.com is going closed source

https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why
355•Benjamin_Dobell•22h ago•276 comments

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
1597•Brajeshwar•20h ago•694 comments

I made a terminal pager

https://theleo.zone/posts/pager/
151•speckx•15h ago•36 comments

FIXAPL

https://fixapl.netlify.app/
49•tosh•4d ago•4 comments