Bandersnatch

How will the "real car" power your home?

7kW or 7kWh per hour. The car can travel 7km/kWh. So one hour of home charging adds 49km of range. This research on driving in Thailand states that the average km driven per year for a saloon in the provinces of Thailand is 14,071 km/yr or 38.5km per day. I can add this much range in 47 minutes of charging. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-Travel-Distance-of-Vehicles-3_tbl2_238658930#:~:text=Average vehicle kilometer traveling of,%2Fday respectively [18] . You obviously don't have solar or you wouldn't have asked such a question. A tesla powerwall has only 13.5kWh of capacity compared to my car which has 82.5kWh. I actually have home batteries - which you have known if you had watched the videos. A tesla powerwall needs charging every day but my car does not and can power my house for several days. My EV is primarily a car, the fact it can also act as home battery storage is effectively a no cost benefit. Did you read my replies to other posts here?

Commenting on a discussion without watching the videos that the discussion is based on! Now go and watch the videos I posted in the opening post and you will see why what you posted is so wrong

Firstly can I ask did you actually watch the videos? Because it sounds to me that you didn't as you would have seen the amount of power being drawn from the car. We need to put the emotive phrase "overworking" into context. My EV's 82.5kWh battery is designed to propel a 2 tonne vehicle plus occupants 600km per charge. By comparison my house load at night is 500W or 0.5kWh per hour. So the car could power my house at night for 165 hours of night-time usage. In the video - that you didn't watch - I said that without using V2L I have run my house and one EV for over a year without drawing any power from the grid. So if in the future I have the need of a little extra help from my EV it is not going to be "overworking the batteries" The rest of your questions are off-topic and are being ignored.

As OP let me remind everyone that this is a discussion about bi-directional charging. Using an EV as a battery on wheels to power your home. My EV has 82.5kWh of useable battery capacity compared to a Tesla Powerwall having only 13.5kWh. This is game changing as you can charge your car up during the day when it’s sunny and draw a few hundred Watts to help run the house at night, while still have enough power drive your car in the morning.

The grownups were discussing an article that you couldn’t be bothered to read but you wanted to discuss it anyway!

Not you obviously 😂😂😂

You are replying to @KhunLA who owns an EV in Thailand and you are telling him about charging an EV in Thailand The question is, you the one giving advice about charging an EV in Thailand, do you actually own an EV in Thailand? Or are you just spouting uninformed rubbish?

You didn't read the linked article did you? https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/ When you've actually done your homework, then you can come back and post here

I just bought my second EV so I'm putting my money where my mouth is. There are plenty of people who don't want an EV which is fine, but please shut up about it - nobody needs to hear every day that you don't want an EV I would say that there are many people who post here who definitely shouldn't buy one. It's not as easy as rolling up to PTT and handing over a thousand Baht with a "Bee Jet Krap" There are apps and a lot of tech which can be a bit tricky for some. "many people who post here who definitely shouldn't buy one" end up on EV discussions trying to tell those of us who have been driving EVs in Thailand for years stuff like: "There are no chargers in Thailand you know" "Battery will be dead in less than a year - it's the weather here you know" "EVs in Thailand are too expensive, you can't buy one for less than $100,000" My question is why are they on EV discussions repeating the same old rubbish.

Scaring my Thai friends could get addictive

"at night" - in bed by 9pm! Will give some feedback when I get a chance

Will post my BYD Seal videos here

Decided engagement in this discussion was a complete waste of time

"IMO" and your opinion is based upon....? Owning an electric vehicle with an LiFePO4 Cathode - I doubt it. Maybe you had the same battery chemistry in a solar home storage setup - unlikely Or do you have an advanced degree in electrochemistry No clearly your opinion is uniformed and worthless

Did you realise that I was responding to @KhunLA post where he was showing the range of the car? On a long trip I won't keep popping home to top up the charge on my home wall box, I will use a fast DC chargers along my route.

Did you watch the 2 videos? I covered both of these points there.

The BYD Seal Premium has an efficiency of 7.8km/kWh and can charge at 150kW. So it can add 20km per minute while charging. A 10 minute charge adds 200km range.

The BYD Seal has 3 models. I have the AWD Performance model with the bigger 82.5kWh usable battery and 580km range. BKK is 450km away.

Preparing to have your free EV WallBox installed. BYD’s WallBox installation team has already contacted my wife about the install and they had some questions for her about the meter size, location of the installation and the nearest breaker box. I am pleased BYD use a different install team to MG as the installation was a nightmare. They insisted to use their own breakers, which I said were not designed for the breaker box and represented a safety risk. This is the breaker box after their installation - I have removed most of the remains of the fried gecko that had pushed it’s way into the gap. Before BYD’s visit I changed the breakers to Siemens and freed up a space for the new wall box.

I have posted a new topic in the Thailand Motor Discussion about V2L.

My new EV has bi-directional charging. I already have solar and home batteries, but the EV is another source of power keeping me off-grid. The first video is my current setup and the second video explains the different types of bi-directional charging and how to connect an EV to a home solar system.