Your electric motorcycle could power your home, here’s why that matters Source: e-center 2.0 – The Netherlands | Electric cars are already doing it. For example Renault (5) or Kia (EV9) are able to deliver energy back to home or grid. Being intensely tested in a lab and pilot environments, this technology is now also available for households. Now the conversation is slowly turning toward two-wheelers, and for electric motorcycle riders, the implications are worth paying attention to. Bi-directional charging, or V2X (vehicle-to-everything), is the ability of an electric vehicle to not only receive energy from the grid but also send it back out. That can mean powering your home during an outage (V2H), feeding electricity back to the grid during peak demand (V2G), or running equipment directly from the bike’s battery (V2L). The technology exists. The infrastructure is catching up. The question for the electric motorcycle world is: when does this become real for us? The battery size problem, and why it’s not a dealbreaker Here is the honest picture: electric motorcycles carry small batteries compared to cars. A Zero SR/F carries a capacitiy from 17.3 kWh. A Stark Varg MX sits at 6 kWh. On paper, that looks like a non-starter for powering a house. Meanwhile there’s a lot of advertising for (large and expensive) home batteries. But if you really want to economically and practically benefit from a home battery (and solar panels), it’s best to choose one that can cover at least your evening/night consumption. That’s an average of around 5 kWh. When you look at it this way, an electric car battery as a home energy storage system is even more practical. Any excess capacity can optionally be used during the day for energy trading or other purposes. For V2G applications feeding the grid, even