Hello dear Humans and Robots!
Q:
What is the lowest power that the Leaf ZE0 will charge at and how to get it there?
Background:
I am thinking about getting a solar-generator (basically a mega-powerbank) which comes with a 500W inverter. And it occurred to me, that a portable 0.5kwh battery could mean the difference between reaching the next charger or a tow truck. But how to get the juice from the box into the car without blowing the poor little thing up?
Research:
The EVSE controlls the maximum power available to the EV via PWM in the charge-cable. But the lowest amount is 6A (is that true?). At 230v (I live in Europe), that is almost 1400w. But would that mean, that I can feed 110v through the granny lead? 110v x 6a is a mere 660W, which slowly comes into the area we can handle. A step-down transformer could do that, eh? I saw someone on youtube putting up some solar panels around their car, to catch some free power during the day. I wonder how they did it? Trickle-charge an external battery and then dump it in through a big inverter?
Any help is appreciated!
Cheers,
chris
Q:
What is the lowest power that the Leaf ZE0 will charge at and how to get it there?
Background:
I am thinking about getting a solar-generator (basically a mega-powerbank) which comes with a 500W inverter. And it occurred to me, that a portable 0.5kwh battery could mean the difference between reaching the next charger or a tow truck. But how to get the juice from the box into the car without blowing the poor little thing up?
Research:
The EVSE controlls the maximum power available to the EV via PWM in the charge-cable. But the lowest amount is 6A (is that true?). At 230v (I live in Europe), that is almost 1400w. But would that mean, that I can feed 110v through the granny lead? 110v x 6a is a mere 660W, which slowly comes into the area we can handle. A step-down transformer could do that, eh? I saw someone on youtube putting up some solar panels around their car, to catch some free power during the day. I wonder how they did it? Trickle-charge an external battery and then dump it in through a big inverter?
Any help is appreciated!
Cheers,
chris