There has been excitement about using batteries in electric vehicles for energy storage for the grid or homes for years, referred to as vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home integration. Let us focus on vehicle-to-home.

The 27th climate summit began this week in Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea. United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres, a trained electrical engineer and physicist, opened the meeting by saying: “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.” 

One of the reasons for the success of platforms like StartEngine is the rise of impact investing, which StartEngine discusses in a great blog post “Investing in a Better World.” More and more people want to make a positive difference in the world with their investments. In fact, we must.

“Less than a decade ago, the world that lay ahead seemed even more disastrous than the one we’ve just taken a tour of; truly apocalyptic scenarios for all of humanity seemed plausible. Today we are faced with something different: climate upheaval big enough to terrify and intimidate and yet open-ended enough to be wrangled and even managed by politics and human design, as well.” 

“Persistent, traumatic grief can cause us to cycle (sometimes quickly) through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance." These stages are humans’ attempts to process change and protect ourselves while we adapt to a new reality,” writes the University of Washington on its help page, The Stages of Grief: Accepting the Unacceptable.