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Nissan Rolls Out a System that Lets Your Electric Car Serve as a Backup Battery for Your House | Popular Science

The Nissan Leaf Zero emission vehicle. Backup power storage. Tom Raftery via Wikimedia

The Nissan Leaf can run 70-plus miles on a single charge. Now, it can also power a family home for two days if it needs to. The “Leaf to Home” project Nissan is rolling out in Japan allows the electricity stored in the Leaf’s lithium-ion battery to be fed back into a home, running major appliances for up to two days.

 

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