How your future car could power your California home

Electric vehicles provide energy storage, on wheels.  But until now, this has been an untapped resource, unable to help shore up the power grid and back up homes and businesses during outages.

On Saturday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that will help harness that energy. SB 59, proposed by State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, authorizes the California Energy Commission, the state agency in charge of energy policy, to require that all new electric vehicles sold in the state are equipped with so-called “bidirectional” charging by 2027 — not just pulling energy, but sending it back.

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