Anyone know of bidirectional charging status?

[dscafetta]

Peter, is anyone listening? Can you PLEASE provide an update on the road map for bi-directional charging?

 

[HC_79]

Peter, is anyone listening? Can you PLEASE provide an update on the road map for bi-directional charging?

It’s still on the list from the recent tech day…..

 

[joec]

Peter, is anyone listening? Can you PLEASE provide an update on the road map for bi-directional charging?

Bi-directional between two vehicles has shipped. Gravity will have V2L. V2H is still under active development. No firm release date.

That's right from Eric Bach's mouth less than two months ago, at a public event.

 

[SaratogaLefty]

Can't come too soon for this area!!

 

[DeaneG]

Can't come too soon for this area!!View attachment 24666

In the meantime, my fallback-plan Enphase PV + battery has been working pretty well.

 

[scal_air]

In the meantime, my fallback-plan Enphase PV + battery has been working pretty well.

Yeah but wouldn't it be great to have an extra 118 kWh battery...for free?

 

[DeaneG]

Yeah but wouldn't it be great to have an extra 118 kWh battery...for free?

That it would! For this to really make sense with home solar energy management (PV + home battery and/or car), the PV system's software needs to know the car's SOC. This isn't possible directly through the J1772 level 2 charging connector, and there isn't a consistent API across car manufacturers. I do hope to eventually find a bidirectional charging solution that works well with my Enphase home PV and battery - Enphase has been promising this, but their target ship date has been slipping. Other companies are already in the market. IMO it will be important to source most of the system from one manufacturer (PV + Home energy storage solution + bidirectional car charging EVSE).

 

[SaratogaLefty]

I'm coming up on three years since I bought my LCHCS with the promise of V2H "coming soon". I know they are continuing to work on it but as you can see from my post above, I really need it now please!!

 

[Pragmatic]

I gave up. I looked at Quasar 2 and Enphase in addition to Lucid charger. I'm buying a plain connected charger (can't see paying extra for the Lucid) and when installed will have a sub-panel installed. Sub-panel will have load transfer switch and connection for a generator. Not critical, last outage over a day long was Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

 

[Ktw13]

Last time I heard about V2H wad Eric Bach told Kyle that Dr Emad is working hard on it