{"id":30583,"date":"2016-09-28T13:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/soon-tesla-cars-could-power-the-grid-and-our-homes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:25:11","slug":"soon-tesla-cars-could-power-the-grid-and-our-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/soon-tesla-cars-could-power-the-grid-and-our-homes","title":{"rendered":"Soon, Tesla Cars Could Power the Grid (and Our Homes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnbcgU4ECPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Brief.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla and SolarCity are working on making their cars capable of powering a household, and even the entire grid. Using vehicle-to-grid technology, Tesla may be on to something here, and its more than just saving on your electric bills.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/tesla-is-buying-solarcity-and-its-costing-them-2-6-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk bought SolarCity<\/a> for at least $2.6 billion, merging the solar engineering company with Tesla. Since then, both have been busy working on a few things. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the promise to cut down on your household electric bill.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/soon-tesla-cars-could-power-the-grid-and-our-homes\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/soon-tesla-cars-could-power-the-grid-and-our-homes\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief. Tesla and SolarCity are working on making their cars capable of powering a household, and even the entire grid. Using vehicle-to-grid technology, Tesla may be on to something here, and its more than just saving on your electric bills. Earlier this year, Elon Musk bought SolarCity for at least $2.6 billion, merging the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60243,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions\/60243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}