Australian woman used her BYD electric car to power her son’s dialysis machine during a blackout::A BYD electric car acted as a life-saving power generator during extreme weather in Australia.

  • bfg9k@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Energy can’t be created, yes. From what I understand though electrical power is generated by conversion of energy, as in the electrical potential did not exist before and after ‘generation’ of power the potential exists.

    • vithigar@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      By that logic a battery is a generator, since it converts chemical potential energy into electricity.

      Generators, as typically understood, convert mechanical energy into electricity.