Casey Liss

So anyway, I happen to know, and it has nothing to do with John Syracuse whatsoever, that there's also a vehicle to load, or V2L, where the AC inverter in the EV is used to supply power that is plugged in via a generator inlet or whatever.

V2L does not require a bidirectional charger to operate.

And by pure coincidence, I don't know why I didn't bring this up last episode because it's fresh in mind.

My friend Brad, who has the F-150 Lightning,

He had just installed in the last couple of weeks a generator inlet for him to plug his F-150 Lightning into because that has 220, I'm probably getting the details wrong, but it's basically got like a NEMA 1450 or whatever outlet on the back of it that you can plug into a generator inlet.

That's exactly the point.

And so as best I know, he has not yet tried this, but in theory, he can use the battery in his Lightning in order to power at least some subset of the house.

Going back to Russell, to me, this removes almost every downside of a battery backup system and keeps all of the upside.

Most TVs have batteries in the 80 kilowatt hour range, so you're starting with way more capacity than you get with a Powerwall or equivalent battery backup system.

If it's a car you already own or were planning on buying anyway, that's an enormous amount of money you can save versus having a car plus the equivalent amount of battery storage, which is a great point.

All right, with regard to fans in the M Pro line.

All right.

With regard to, see, you know, not even you are perfect, John.

Who knew?

Right.

With regard to enthusiasts of the M-whatever Pro, Rick Baumhauer writes, I think Marco was confusing the M3 Pro with the M4 Pro when he said the latter wasn't a good value.

The M3 Pro is a terrible chip, basically an M3 Plus rather than an M3 Max Minus, as the M1 and M2 Pro had previously been.

I don't see how M4 Pro with two and a half times the P cores and two times the GPU cores of the base chip can be called poor value at $600 more than the base M4 and $1,000 less than the M4 Max.

The Pro chip, except for the M3 Pro, is for people who want near max performance and core count, but don't need all those GPU cores.

Musicians are one such group.