We have solar on the house and it has the same switch. I wonder if having solar makes vehicle to house power more complicated or less?
I agree. At least the Rivian's have 1,500W 120V AC output, which is enough to run a fridge and freezer and a few other things. Not many EVs even have that, certainly Tesla doesn't. The F150 Lightning is of course the king of the hill as far as power output goes.
would really like this option to be possible on the R1 as we have frequent power outages but wish they would make a statement about it one way or the other. id actually been waiting on buying a generator because of what RJ said on that video when it first came out.
You still need to do load management, so automatic is more expensive. Just a 7kw inverter and a plug, like the Lightning offers, is good enough for occasional power outages.
My guess is that it will launch side by side with the electro chromatic roof. The language also sound awfully familiar as a 2016 Tesla owner with a Full Self Driving capable vehicle.
According to Wallbox they claim "Quasar 2 will seamlessly transition your home to vehicle energy when the power goes out." which tells me it's all automated, 11.5kW output. Granted it isn't released yet so talk is cheap, but they already have close to final versions built and they're really close to releasing them. I'm guessing it's going to be $3,500 - $4,000 but who knows
It doesn't make it all that more complicated, but it's very unlikely your solar inverter/s would be able to produce power while the truck is plugged in. It's possible, but it would require some specialized equipment and software to function like a power wall. The difficult part is when your solar is producing more energy than your home is consuming and the car is plugged into the other side. Where does the excess energy production go? The way residential backup batteries deal with the situation where the battery is full and the solar is producing more power than the house needs, is to shift the frequency of the power from the battery's inverter up from 60Hz to 61-62Hz. All modern solar inverters follow this wonderful standard and will throttle down their production based on the frequency until they eventually turn off. I think frequency shift is a beautiful standard and a great example of how competitors in an industry can work together to benefit everyone. The beauty is now everything works with everything without a data connection between the solar inverters and the battery inverter. This is probably more info than you wanted... Sorry for the book. The reason I doubt Rivian's solution will work is the leading companies in this space struggle to produce devices to manage this for less than $5-6k. I think they need to keep it simpler and affordable if they want it to be worth it to consumers. It's just a hunch and I hope I'm wrong. It would be rad if your car could function like a power wall when it's plugged in, but I don't think we're there yet. My guess is it will work about as good as a medium size generator with a max output of about 30 amps and if it sensed power coming in from the other side, be it a generator, solar, or line power, it would disconnect. Pure speculation for sure, though I owned a solar installation company for 10 years and dealt a lot with OEM's and watched this tech evolve. I hope I'm wrong, honestly, cause it would be awesome.
This letter came out after RJ's video. So the latest appears to be that V2H and V2V charging are dependent upon their 800V architecture, which is not in any vehicles in production today.
