Need Advice

[welsummer]

Hi I am new to the forum. I have an electric car (Peugeot Ion this is a rebadged mitsubishi i-miev). Does anyone know if and how I can use the power from the battery through an inverter to power my house at night time? At present I have a 4kw solar panel system so consequently charge the car battery in the day.
Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Amp David]

Yeah shouldn't be a problem. Crack on with it

 

[danzor]

Haha quality

 

[Gavin A]

give the pheonix works chaps a ring, they're installing a lot of EV charging points as well as PV, so might not what the situation is.

My suspicion would be that the answer is no at the moment (without jerry rigging something up), though this will probably change in coming years.

I'm not entirely sure of the wisdom of this approach either, unless you're a really low car user. Unless you're only draining a few percent out of the battery, then regular cycles for powering the house are going to impact on the battery life, which you'd need to consider carefully before spending money on a set up to power the house, as those batteries aren't cheap.

 

[Worcester]

And so long as you don't want to go anywhere the next morning!

 

[telectrix]

is there not some regulation regarding isolation of the charger for the car from the hose earthing system?

 

[sean_ork]

Nissan says electric car can power family home

http://www.autotrader.com/research/...-use-for-the-electric-car-emergency-power.jsp

 

[Dizzy_Maskell]

If you are feeling extra entrepreneurial why not hook a link up to power your neighbours houses too, You could charge them a small fee and will be able to pay that car off in no time,
You could make even more money in winter if you charge then to power there electric heaters

 

[Sparkysoldman]

This has to be one of the most amusing threads I've seen for a long time can't wait to see how it developes

 

[Gavin A]

is there not some regulation regarding isolation of the charger for the car from the hose earthing system?

you earth your hoses?

 

[Gavin A]

fwiw, this is actually seriously mooted by DECC's chief science officer as being something he expects to become widespread, and used to help with grid balancing to increase the potential penetration of variable renewables to the grid.

So it's all very well mocking, but it is actually likely to happen on a fairly wide scale in coming decades.

I'm not convinced the technology is quite there for this yet, but it won't be far off.

 

[SibertSolar]

http://m.digitaltrends.com/cars/whats-next-for-the-electric-car-wireless-power-lithium-air-batteries-and-more/

Interesting read perhaps, I hear a lot of talk about lithium-air storage technology, seems to be the quantum leap that we need

 

[sean_ork]

what new technology is needed ?

battery monitoring/charging/inversion/charge control aren't rocket science - no doubt there will be the usual fight over which connector/interconnect system is best (in much the same manner as VHS v Betamax)

with the wider scale availability of SLG, methods of storage and the novel use of EV batteries is a logical step forward - it's a shame this country has such a backwards way of thinking, as illustrated here by the natural impulse to mock such a concept

it's certainly a more logical approach to use an existing store than to spend 7K on a cabinet of batteries and a Chinese invertor

 

[Geordie Spark]

you earth your hoses?

Only his Lederhose.

Helps to reduce the static generated by his thighs rubbing together.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=l...zKO-O7Qai3IHADw&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=909

 

[Gavin A]

what new technology is needed ?

battery monitoring/charging/inversion/charge control aren't rocket science - no doubt there will be the usual fight over which connector/interconnect system is best (in much the same manner as VHS v Betamax)

with the wider scale availability of SLG, methods of storage and the novel use of EV batteries is a logical step forward - it's a shame this country has such a backwards way of thinking, as illustrated here by the natural impulse to mock such a concept

it's certainly a more logical approach to use an existing store than to spend 7K on a cabinet of batteries and a Chinese invertor

technology to integrate all of the above in a controlled way while also ensuring that the battery level doesn't fall below a preset level / is charged again when it needs to be charged.

none of it's rocket science, and it is all based on technology that exists, I'm just not aware of any cost effective product on the market yet that integrates it all properly.

Happy to be pointed in the direction of a product that does this though.