Hyundai Ioniq 5

[Moxi]

NICE!

I have a hundred watt infrared lap trained on the inglenook stone work to embed some thermal energy in the stonework for this evening - just to see how it goes- pleasantly it’s not making any noticeable contribution to the room temperature at present so hopefully most of the energy is seeping inwards at present.

Moxi

[Joeboy]

NICE!

I have a hundred watt infrared lap trained on the inglenook stone work to embed some thermal energy in the stonework for this evening - just to see how it goes- pleasantly it’s not making any noticeable contribution to the room temperature at present so hopefully most of the energy is seeping inwards at present.

Moxi

That's a great

[Joeboy]

Quite enjoying the conversion of sunlight to forward motion.last couple of days. If I catch it right I can be putting 6kW+.into the car from batterries,& panels.

Had a full on failure of the easeeone charger on Friday afternoon. The company who installed it came out and replaced for new same afternoon. Didn't expect that! Said this is the first failure they've seen in 100 installations.

Surely EV sales will rise off the back off current FF price soaring? To be able to fuel a car for no cost is surely a holy grail?

[Stinsy]

Quite enjoying the conversion of sunlight to forward motion.last couple of days. If I catch it right I can be putting 6kW+.into the car from batterries,& panels.

Had a full on failure of the easeeone charger on Friday afternoon. The company who installed it came out and replaced for new same afternoon. Didn't expect that! Said this is the first failure they've seen in 100 installations.

Surely EV sales will rise off the back off current FF price soaring? To be able to fuel a car for no cost is surely a holy grail?

Electricity prices have risen by more than road fuel recently. The cost of running the most efficient ICEVs is similar to running an EV for most people. My BiL was round this weekend, he was pleased to have fixed his electric at 39p/kWh. He was shocked when I told him about my 5/15p tariff, how I don’t actually use that much 15p electric on the darkest midwinter days, and how I use hardly any grid power at all on sunny days including charging the car.

The experience of us lot isn’t the same as the vast majority.

[Joeboy]

Quite enjoying the conversion of sunlight to forward motion.last couple of days. If I catch it right I can be putting 6kW+.into the car from batterries,& panels.

Had a full on failure of the easeeone charger on Friday afternoon. The company who installed it came out and replaced for new same afternoon. Didn't expect that! Said this is the first failure they've seen in 100 installations.

Surely EV sales will rise off the back off current FF price soaring? To be able to fuel a car for no cost is surely a holy grail?

The experience of us lot isn’t the same as the vast majority.

So true across almost all life experience (apart from Wetherspoons, they are consistent). I hope our posts here help a passerby to a light bulb moment now and then.

I'll still choose the EV and not on.price, can't stand the smell anymore.

[Joeboy]

A really nice 310 mile run today. I do enjoy buying those charging time coffees. Way more civilised and pleasant than the stench of fuel. Really enjoyed the cruise control, auto wipers etc, still not a fan of Lane assist. No matter, came out the other end feeling great!

[Ken]

I apologise but ran out of steam 1/2 through this thread.

I gather the V2L can do 4.6kw ? --- on a 3 pin plug !? This could easily power the house just need to switch the house off first - that cant be too difficult can it? Isolation switch between the meter and the CU ?

[marshman]

NO.

You need a proper change over switch so it is an OR function - grid supply OR V2L (or generator or inverter backup supply or whatever). Simply isolating from the grid is an AND function where it is easily possibly to have both the grid and V2L (or whatever) connected at the same time - which is not good!. The danger with an isolation switch is someone "forgets" to isolate the house from the grid (especially easy to do if there is a power cut when there will be no positive indication the grid is isolated) and then at best you could have an escape of smoke, at worst someone (usually some poor power worker up a pole fixing the fault) gets a "belt" or much worse. A proper changeover switch will prevent this possibility and is virtually idiot proof.

You also have the issue of earthing to deal with - more difficult if you are on PME (TN-C-S) - if you don't understand what that means you need to find out before changing anything.

[Joeboy]

I apologise but ran out of steam 1/2 through this thread.

I gather the V2L can do 4.6kw ? --- on a 3 pin plug !? This could easily power the house just need to switch the house off first - that cant be too difficult can it? Isolation switch between the meter and the CU ?

Max discharge rate from the vehicle is 3.6kW. When I tested it I just used an extension reel and ran the washing machine. In the event of needing the EV as a power source during a powercut I'd just run the reel into the house.

[Ken]

The blurb i looked at said 4.6kw https://thedriven.io/2021/12/11/ioniq-5 ... ll-in-one/

In fact i could not find the fig on the Ionic site.