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The Volkswagen ID.3 Gets A New Name, But Don’t Call It A Golf Yet
Volkswagen’s cheapest EV is getting a big facelift next month. The ID.3 electric hatchback will be called ID.3…
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https://www.evshift.com/416446/new-peugeot-e-308-lion-is-coming-vehicle-to-load/ New Peugeot E-308 | Lion Is Coming | Vehicle‑to‑Load #Coming #E308 #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #lion #peugeot #PeugeotUK #VehicletoLoad
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Grid power was restored at 1.22 am (17 hours 43 minutes after it went out) but I was in bed by then so our car continued to supply power to our fridge-freezer, WiFi, etc. overnight. By the time I disconnected everything from the V2L adaptor it had been providing power for us for 24 hours and used a total of 7.2 kWh in that time, leaving the car battery at 91%.
The V2L adaptor goes back into its storage spot in the sub-basement of the boot, and I've decided to keep one of the 30 metre extension cords and the power board box in the frunk just in case I need them when on the road.
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So far so good. The scheduled power outage started about 7:40 am, but I was able to quickly restore power to the fridge-freezer, the NBN box & WiFi router, the lizard's heat lamp and lighting, and my working from home monitor, laptop, etc.
I have the Vehicle-to-Load adaptor plugged into the car, two extra heavy duty 30 metre long extension cables plugged onto that inside a weatherproof power board box, and a mess of additional power boards and extension cords inside the house. Fortunately, apart from the fridge which is directly connected to the V2L adaptor, it's all very low power so having lots of long cables will be OK.
Being able to work from home pretty much as I normally do on Wednesdays is nice, but not having to worry about everything in the freezer defrosting is really, really nice.
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BYD Seal: Extreme EV “traffic jam” test with an air fryer #byd #bydmalaysia #bydseal #bydsealmalaysia #bydsealpremium #cars #electricvehicle #ev #featured #news #v2l #vehicletoload #video
https://soyacincau.com/2024/04/15/byd-seal-ev-traffic-jam-energy-consumption-idle-standstill-v2l/
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And.. after three hours of using my truck to power the house, it's now time to charge the truck back up from mains - and also to charge my colleague's EV.
I think we might be pulling a lot of power from the grid.
Side note: As @TechConnectify showcased when doing a weekend "power the home" experiment, EV battery packs are MASSIVE and can run a 'normal' home for days without an issue.
My home is not a normal home, because we have a sever room that runs while I'm at work, and we also have a fairly large house (and it was cold last night). We rely on electricity for all our heating and power.
To give you an idea of how much more power we use, our sever room in a single day can consume about 40 kWh of power alone. So yeah, we consume more than normal people do.
My Truck's battery went from 95% to about 75% in three hours, but that was with literally everything powered on that we'd normally use for an average morning. If we had an actual power cut, we'd be using FAR LESS than we did.
#PDX #Energy #BackupPower #HomeAssistant #VehicleToLoad #VehicleToGrid
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Why yes, I have turned off the mains grid power to earn money from my local utility’s “Peak Power Event”.
Supposedly, I’ll earn $1 for every kWh I don’t use compared to normal.
it’s a shame they didn’t increase that to $1.18 (they put prices up last month by 18%).
Imagine if everyone could do this? We’d negate the use of peaker power plants!
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The ABC has also picked up the story about electric car vehicle-to-load (V2L) capability helping people out during the extended power outages in south east Queensland following the Xmas Day storms.
They are predictably coy on the issue of which EVs can do this though. "EV consultant Nathan Gore-Brown estimates that only about a quarter of the EV cars sold in Australia have V2L capacity." Yes, that's because Tesla, the top selling brand, decided not to include this functionality in any of their cars.
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Stories of people being helped out by electric car vehicle-to-load (V2L) capability during the power outages on the Gold Coast that followed the Xmas Day storms: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/01/amazing-queensland-mum-uses-electric-car-to-save-sons-life-with-dialysis-during-power-outage
I already had a long, heavy duty extension cable on my wishlist, with the ability to keep our fridge-freezer running during a power cut in mind.