because when I leave for work in the morning, I like to see a my car has no charge and a $10.28 for all the inconvenience of a dead battery on a grid that doesn't have enough producers of power, but tons of automated stems stealing power from storage systems like politicians manage social security funds.,(reply>), Its more likely that something like teslas home batteries would be used for that.,(reply>), If millions of cars at once are being used for seconds of energy, i doubt that you would be drained that significantly, and if the power goes out for longer than that, then i'm sure they wouldnt use the car battery for something like that. Also, most teslas (and assuming other companies follow in their footsteps soon enough) and other electric vehicles have the ability to fully charge in 30 minutes or less. So, aside from being slightly later to work than you would have been, the effect is minimal.<br>However, this is still assuming everyone is on a grid. If everyone gets one of those tesla batteries for the home (which are being developed right now), and uses solar energy, then the only people responsible for the energy in the house is the owner of the house. You and only you would be able to control your energy use, not your neighbor, not the governement, just you. The battery packs are actually really good, since you get to a). take control of your own needs independently without government intervention b). provide the private business sector with money so they can provide you better products in the future and c). make your cost of power drop down significantly, only paying installation costs and maintenance costs.,(reply>), so what happens when people decide that they want a full charge and opt out that idea... is the government going to use eminent domain on your energy storage capacity?,(reply>), Could easily avoid that by having a manual setting in the computer, just set it to never go below X amount.