OK Thanks Guys, It was purely a bit of a feasibility study on the art of what may be possible, my night rate which I charge my car with is roughly a 1/3 of my day rate, I have seen in the past people put a justifiable financial case together to install batteries in their property to make better use of night rate electric. Personally I'm not keen on installing large battery packs in the house, but i did wonder about using the car battery when not in use to feed the house to save money.
Doesn't look like a possibility with the Zoe but thankyou all for your comments.
Richard, there are cars which will allow you to draw AC 240V power from the car battery via a feature called Vehicle to Load. Hyundai/Kia , MG and Ford have this on some models (chargable with Ford Lightning pickup). Need to remember that using V2L regularly will add charge/discharge cycles to your battery which will have some impact on degradation so, for this reason, it would be better to choose a car that has a Lithium Iron Phosphate battery if this is your plan - MG4 has this battery and supports V2L.
I wouldn't know if you can but even if it is possible I wouldn't want to keep charging my car and then draining it for fear of degrading the battery much sooner.
Hi. As any solar panel user will tell you, thepanels cannot be used to power your home in case of a black out. However it is great to be able to charge the Zoe for a very small cost. Re the E car being able to supply the home, as Colin Paterson suggests, it would not be viable. However, in the case of a power blackout, it might well be a temporary solution until the lights come back on. Ron
Hi Ron, well the new two way charger is actually for the use which you portray, to be used in case of the need for backup. As to using the solar panels in case of a black out, the are several ways to use backup batteries to power up the converters, and so be able to keep the solar panels generating power. VICTRON has the MULTIPLUS II , which lets you do this.
OK Thanks Guys, It was purely a bit of a feasibility study on the art of what may be possible, my night rate which I charge my car with is roughly a 1/3 of my day rate, I have seen in the past people put a justifiable financial case together to install batteries in their property to make better use of night rate electric. Personally I'm not keen on installing large battery packs in the house, but i did wonder about using the car battery when not in use to feed the house to save money.
Doesn't look like a possibility with the Zoe but thankyou all for your comments.
Richy
Richard, there are cars which will allow you to draw AC 240V power from the car battery via a feature called Vehicle to Load. Hyundai/Kia , MG and Ford have this on some models (chargable with Ford Lightning pickup). Need to remember that using V2L regularly will add charge/discharge cycles to your battery which will have some impact on degradation so, for this reason, it would be better to choose a car that has a Lithium Iron Phosphate battery if this is your plan - MG4 has this battery and supports V2L.
I wouldn't know if you can but even if it is possible I wouldn't want to keep charging my car and then draining it for fear of degrading the battery much sooner.
Hi Richy, i'm not sure if it would work with a ZOE, but WALLBOX has a new very expensive charger on sale to be able to do this.
Ramon