Using Your Car to Power Your House?

(and your Leaf, of course).

Or not your Leaf--yet. First, the thing is going on sale in Japan, priced at 480,000 yet (about $6,000). A government subsidy reduces the actual price by about a third, though, to roughly $4,100.

Does that sound like a good deal to you? I don’t know how high your electricity bill runs, but I know I couldn’t save anything on the order of four grand through a bit of clever energy arbitrage, not even over the course of several years. But I'm in a New York City apartment/closet. Perhaps there are households that could--but if you come from a household that blows through so much electricity as to make this economical, it's somewhat puzzling why you bought a Leaf at all.

Survivalists, doomsday-predictors, and general sky-is-falling-ists might also take heart to know they could treat their car as an auxiliary generator in the event of an asteroid strike, zombie apocalypse, and the like. Though if the grid goes down all together, that’s only going to help you for so long.

So, would you buy the thing? More details on the device from the DigInfo video below.

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