IS10101 is addressing this.
If it's though a proper generator connection, with a changeover switch there's no issue. It isolates the house from the grid.
Exactly the same as if someone connected up a petrol generator to the house.
Yeah but that’s what I’m wondering.
What connection is on the other end of a V2L lead? Is it a 3 pin plug?
I suppose the problem is that this will be something that many people have as a feature of a car, rather than something that they have sought to obtain, in other words a powerful tool in the hands of less than knowledgeable people.
A homemade backfeeding cable could do a lot of damage.
Rear left side... and if it's not there you bought the wrong car!!
Yeah just a socket. Same as you have in the wall.
Normally it's in the form of a type2 to the standard 3 pin plug.
The ol' widow maker.
Thankfully if someone does that it will likely just trip something as the AC won't be in phase if the grid is live.
If the grid is down and the house is not isolated it will likely trip out more or less instantly as it tries to power everyone. Usually only can output 3ish kW
People can do that with generators too, and they are much cheaper than EVs.
No it won’t trip anything.
If the grid is switched out and there’s no isolation switch the EV electricity will feed back onto the LV network and depending on how close to a transformer the 10/20KV network.
It’s not a great situation tbh.
Generators can and do this too.
I was the same with my Model S, imported it at height of UK and Irl Covid restrictions, never been in one before, just seen from a distance when in the US. Collected it from a deserted yard, figured out how to drive it and then floored it on the way home on blank roads, was weird. Only car I passed was the missus who dropped me off for collection and she was told to leave straight away, thankfully seller had fully charged for me
You need to distinguish V2L from the other two... V2H and V2G.
Your concerns would be covered in V2H/V2G as they will have standards and be controlled by the extra equipment you need to utilise them.
V2L is just the very same as your petrol generator and the same concerns would exist for those.
If someone is reckless enough to connect a petrol generator to their consumer unit with no changeover switch then they will be liable for any consequences. Its no more or less likely that someone would do it with an EV but to answer your question, nothing to stop someone doing it.
Ideally you would have a changeover switch to isolate the grid and then you could use the car to power to house during a power cut but only upto the limit of a 3 pin plug(which is what the output of V2L is), so max 3kW, so no electric showers or heat pumps etc.... just basics... TV, internet, lights.
Yeah get ya.
Thanks for clearing that up.
The generator or v2load will overload as it won't power the townland. Thats what I meant trip out.
It still is very dangerous and possibly illegal to do.
most folks with a generator would have an isolator switch.
Russia have a new Tesla Killer. The Avtotor Amber.
I won't even comment.
Fiat must have sold off their Multipla moulds.
Hideous.
Waterford Whispers 😆
An attendant! I haven't seen one of those since the 1980s in Ireland 🤯
BYD opening a factory in Hungary
Would that get around these silly EU tariffs?
As long as Hungary remains in the EU :)
Well there’s that too yeah 😁
The tariffs are designed to protect EU employment so yeah, it's exactly the intended consequence.
Currently driving a rental Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross PHEV LHD. I had to refuel and couldn't believe that I was only able to squeeze 35l into the tank, giving me a range of 390 km. All my EVs have similar or better range.
I'll try to charge but they supplied only granny cable and CHAdeMO are very hard to find around here.
My 530e only has a 40L tank too.
Garda EV moped. BMW CE04
And today on twitter.....
EV's are useless because you'll be left stranded someday.
The batteries are 14k to be replaced.
I heard it was 10k.
(Guy who said it was 14k)...it's actually double that.
The media have a lot of untruths to start setting right.
Have followed the UK's original YouTube Leaf guy, Ian Sampson for years, posts less often now. Big issue with one of his Env 200s.
Some guff in the comments.
good to see competition in tech, dont know anything about it, if its niche or not
Hopefully the Twitter comments aren't representitive of the overall population and are disproportionately from the luddites as you would expect on Twitter.
some beast, are xpeng available here?
They're supposed to launch in the UK this year. I don't know if they will include Ireland.
