Really jealous of other cars with V2L right about now

[Logal727]

With the possibility of a major hurricane coming through my part of Florida, really wishing we were able to tap into the HVB to run things. I’m seeing a few people on the Ioniq5 subreddit absolutely raving about V2L after Fiona. Man I hope this comes in a new model year.

Anyways, what is the biggest appliance I can run off the 12v outlets with my inverter? Any other tips?

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[MachTee]

I use an Ego power station with a bunch of batteries for the occasional power outage. I had a gas generator to charge those batteries, sold it after I got the GV60. Will be using the V2L to charge them. Unless and until their 12V goes dead at just the right time like my GV60 was this morning Go ahead, gloat.

 

[Dave-O]

With the possibility of a major hurricane coming through my part of Florida, really wishing we were able to tap into the HVB to run things. I’m seeing a few people on the Ioniq5 subreddit absolutely raving about V2L after Fiona. Man I hope this comes in a new model year.

Anyways, what is the biggest appliance I can run off the 12v outlets with my inverter? Any other tips?

Get a generator.

 

[Mach-Lee]

With the possibility of a major hurricane coming through my part of Florida, really wishing we were able to tap into the HVB to run things. I’m seeing a few people on the Ioniq5 subreddit absolutely raving about V2L after Fiona. Man I hope this comes in a new model year.

Anyways, what is the biggest appliance I can run off the 12v outlets with my inverter? Any other tips?

About 200W from the 12V power ports, or about 1500W directly from the battery. A fridge is about 200W, toaster 1500W, microwave 2000W.

I wouldn’t bother with the plug-in inverters unless you only need to charge laptops or smaller, etc.

 

[DevSecOps]

Any other tips?

I believe you could get about 5 gigajoules, or 1388kWh, for every lightning strike. How to capture that is beyond my pay.

 

[generaltso]

I believe you could get about 5 gigajoules, or 1388kWh, for every lightning strike. How to capture that is beyond my pay.

Wait, I thought a bolt of lightning was 1.21 jigawatts?

 

[aramps]

I run my place up in Mendocino off of my old Rav4 EV - by connecting a 12V inverter directly to the battery terminals on the 12V battery and keeping the car on. You can definitely run a reasonably sized house off of it (up to about 100A), but I wouldn't be trying to run an AC system, etc. I can run my cabin for a week or so before needing to drive down the hill to refill the traction battery. My Mach-E won't handle the road out there to see how long I could run it off of a battery bigger than 41 kWh

 

[DevSecOps]

Wait, I thought a bolt of lightning was 1.21 jigawatts?

Yes but only applicable to a flux-capacitor. I don't think @Logal727 is trying to time travel, but you never know now a days!

 

[Mach1E]

With the possibility of a major hurricane coming through my part of Florida, really wishing we were able to tap into the HVB to run things. I’m seeing a few people on the Ioniq5 subreddit absolutely raving about V2L after Fiona. Man I hope this comes in a new model year.

Anyways, what is the biggest appliance I can run off the 12v outlets with my inverter? Any other tips?

In Florida my whole life.

I can’t think of a hurricane situation where I would use this.

Last one that took out power (Irma) it was for days and even weeks in some places.

For places like Sebring, FL that didn’t have power for weeks….. the number one thing they needed? Gasoline.

I wouldn’t sacrifice my ability to drive to keep the house power going. It wouldn’t last long enough to make a difference anyways.

 

[ctenidae]

I run my place up in Mendocino off of my old Rav4 EV - by connecting a 12V inverter directly to the battery terminals on the 12V battery and keeping the car on. You can definitely run a reasonably sized house off of it (up to about 100A), but I wouldn't be trying to run an AC system, etc. I can run my cabin for a week or so before needing to drive down the hill to refill the traction battery. My Mach-E won't handle the road out there to see how long I could run it off of a battery bigger than 41 kWh

That's pretty cool, all around.

 

[Nklem]

I am showing the Ioniq 5 with V2L at a work EV show friday. Free grilled dogs aNd hot coffee for attendees courtesy of my V2L.

 

[dtbaker61]

With the possibility of a major hurricane coming through my part of Florida, really wishing we were able to tap into the HVB to run things. I’m seeing a few people on the Ioniq5 subreddit absolutely raving about V2L after Fiona. Man I hope this comes in a new model year.

Anyways, what is the biggest appliance I can run off the 12v outlets with my inverter? Any other tips?

The 12v outlets are not good for much power....

you can run 'up to' 2000watts if you connect directly to the LVB connection points with a cheap ($300) pure-sine inverter. Turn 'on' the MME, turn 'off' the auto-timeout, connect and fire up the inverter!

https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...120vac-power-from-lvb-connection-points.7317/

I have my little 4kWhr garage backup unit set up so that I can use my MME to charge a little stationary rack of batteries to extend my whole-house backup from hours to DAYS if needed. I have the inverter wired up to backfeed power thru a NEMA 14-50 plug thru my regular wall outlet.

This is not a super safe way to do it because it requires some manual steps to disconnect from the Grid, manually turn off all non-critical load circuits, manually plug in backfeed 'generator' plug.... and THEN fire up the inverter. But, it will definitely work for the occasional emergency, and there is enough energy in my MME to run critical loads in my house for more than a week....

 

[dtbaker61]

Get a generator.

why?

 

[dtbaker61]

About 200W from the 12V power ports, or about 1500W directly from the battery. A fridge is about 200W, toaster 1500W, microwave 2000W.

I wouldn’t bother with the plug-in inverters unless you only need to charge laptops or smaller, etc.

1500watt peak is plenty to run all the basics as long as you don't run everything at the same time.

Killers are anything that heats: range-tops, coffeemakers/hairdryers/teapots or inductive motors like well pumpsm vaccuums, compressors and things like that with a big surge at startup.

This is why I ended up putting in a small stationary system with a 3000watt inverter, 4 kWhr of battery as a 'buffer', and 400watts of Solar to charge. Now my MME is really only needed as a supplementary charger to the emergency battery pack..... jumper cables enable up to 40amps or so to flow from MME to the little 4 kWhr pack when/if it gets low.

 

[MachEMaster]

Vehicle to Load, and Vehicle to Home in the Mach-E would be great.

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