R1T in an Enphase Promo

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Just got this emai:

https://view.email.enphase.com/?qs=...5f326524541da42137864444fbde11941c85b1a93bb97

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[whizzkidd]

I’m really excited for their bidirectional charger. Here’s to hoping it comes out this year.

 

[Polar]

I’m really excited for their bidirectional charger. Here’s to hoping it comes out this year.

I was just on their site yesterday and they bumped the date to 2025. Very disappointed.

 

[jjswan33]

I was just on their site yesterday and they bumped the date to 2025. Very disappointed.

Maybe they are redesigning it to be NACS? Seems silly to come to market with a CCS1 bidirectional charger at this point. Ultimately it is a shrinking market and how many OEMs will even turn it on with existing CCS1 vehicles?

 

[Magicbus]

That’s the nice thing about net metering. Our Enphase installation rolls the meter back when generating and draws from the grid when needed. Because of net metering we buy and sell at the same price so we can charge any time with no penalty and no extra equipment.

 

[BigSkies]

Maybe they are redesigning it to be NACS? Seems silly to come to market with a CCS1 bidirectional charger at this point. Ultimately it is a shrinking market and how many OEMs will even turn it on with existing CCS1 vehicles?

Speculation here, but I doubt the connector is a gating factor in design. Wiring an AC charger to either the Tesla or J-1772 is pretty straight forward.

Things get tricky when you're trying to get something that will do both L2 charging and DCFC through the same connectors. That doesn't apply here.

I suspect it's standards and inspection requirements that is holding the technology back.

Maybe the R1 in the marketing picture implies that Enphase is doing their initial testing and validation on Rivian vehicles first? We can hope.

 

[jjswan33]

Speculation here, but I doubt the connector is a gating factor in design. Wiring an AC charger to either the Tesla or J-1772 is pretty straight forward.

Things get tricky when you're trying to get something that will do both L2 charging and DCFC through the same connectors. That doesn't apply here.

I suspect it's standards and inspection requirements that is holding the technology back.

Maybe the R1 in the marketing picture implies that Enphase is doing their initial testing and validation on Rivian vehicles first? We can hope.

Well I meant more a change in connector could mean finding a new supplier or retooling with an existing supplier, if they had previously planned on going into production in 2024 that shifting to 2025 with even a small change doesn't seem unreasonable.

I don't think standards and inspection requirements really apply here either, other systems exist from specific OEMs (as you probably know). Outside the connection to a vehicle this is no different than existing home battery/backup systems.

 

[barsaec]

I’m hoping Rivian is working with enphase to bring v2h. We’ve had our enphase solar, and battery backup almost a year. We have used the backup a few times here in South Texas. Would love to tap that 135kw battery in the R1S. I wish they’d provide more details on the delay to 2025.

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