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It is interesting to compare to V2H systems.

I believe Chevy offers V2H on all 2026 Equinox EVs. Enabling this needs their V2H Enablement Kit and I believe you also need their PowerShift Charger. That would be around $38k for a 2026 Equinox EV LT, which has an 85 kWh battery, $6300 for the V2H Enablement Kit, $2000 for the PowerShift Charger. Installation via the company Chevy says to use is $2000-5000 according to the net.

That brings us to $51-52k, and would give 70ish kWh of usable backup capacity. That's around $750/kWh of capacity.

Getting that capacity with Powerwalls would require 5 of them and cost quite a bit more.

Plus, with the V2H approach when you aren't having a power outage you can use it as a car. :-)





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