MG V2L cable review - power your appliances from your EV! MG4 works, but Tesla doesn't.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2024
- Lots of natural disasters in Australia recently has left many people without power.
Well, unless you've got a home battery system, generators - or even that EV parked in your garage!
MG lent me one of their V2L cables to see how it would work. Super simple - plug it in your car, activate it, and then plug in your appliances. Didn't try it with a powerboard or multiple appliances - but have seen plenty of people do it. Provided you don't daisy chain a hundred appliances, I think the V2L cable could certainly keep the essentials on!
An amazing little device that expands the usefulness of your V2L capable EV drastically. Camping, travelling, emergency use etc.
Pity my Model 3 doesn't know what to do with V2L :( - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Would be good to do away with a dongle adapter and plug directly into a type I port in the car. Maybe one day we'll get that, and maybe one day engineers will allow the type I port to also charge the battery, in case the one and only charge port on the car gets damaged and unusable rendering the whole car unusable.
Apparently the Kia EV9 has a regular power outlet (type 1) in the boot - brilliant! Though I think it's only V2L and you can't charge the car through it. But the concept of having a second/backup method to charge the car isn't such a bad idea, I'd never thought of that before
John Cadogan demonstrated one problem with V2L. That is that a number of devices - including your air conditioner and your refrigerator, devices that you will certainly want to run if there's an extended blackout - impose a surge load (albeit for a few seconds at most) that is much much higher than the constant load. And whilst that is OK if you run off the grid, that may cause you issues with V2L.
I powered all the essentials in my house for 8 days, during a power failure recently, from my MG4, including a fairly hefty water pump, without which we have no water. There were no issues at all. Although the rating is supposed to be 2.2 kW max, the internal inverter can deliver far more; up to nearly 7 kW by one report I've seen. One reason I chose an MG4 was the V2L capability, and it really came through. I should add that I didn't use the official MG adapter.
@@stuartirwin3779 Good to know. I certainly would not have dared to even try 7kW surge on a 2.2kW inverter. The car that John C used was a Kona electric of some kind.
@@starpawsy There's actually a resistor in the cable that tells the car the maximum to output. I put a 470 ohm in mine, (yes, I made up my own cable, but needs must!), which allows for much higher draw than 2.2 kW. The resistor value also tells the car whether the plug is V2L, or connected to a charge cable, and the maximum to charge at through it. I suspect that the car doesn't have a dedicated V2L inverter, but uses one of the motor drive inverters. In that case, even 7 kW would be nothing to it. I'd be happy to be corrected on this.
I don't think your kettle would use 1.5 kwh, it might draw 1.5 kw but won't take an hour to boil
yes correct - for the few minutes it's actively boiling water, it draws 1.5kW :)
Tom's Man Shed powers his whole shed via his MG4 V2L with a change over switch and a 470k resistor with the cp pin. th-cam.com/video/gKh1IRCvgD0/w-d-xo.html
Pretty clever bit of work done in that video!