Thread: Series3 EV Conversion into its 7th year.

Love it. What is the range on a full charge?

Can you charge at one of those charging stations?

How long does it take to recharge?

Originally Posted by d2dave

Love it. What is the range on a full charge?

Can you charge at one of those charging stations?

How long does it take to recharge?

Hi Dave.

It only has a 28kwh battery and consumes an average of 33 kwh per 100km so its effective range is about 80km. My daily drive is about 25 km so all charging is done at home . However I do have an adaptor to charge it at a Tesla destination charger. It only has a 3.3kw charger , so just plug into a regular 15Amp circuit. A caravan park outlet will do just fine. To refill a full 28kwh would take about 8 hours but I never let it get flat .. This is all old school tech, no fast charging here.

Just need to now add a DC-AC inverter and you could power your house for a day or two during extended outages.

Originally Posted by DiscoDB

Just need to now add a DC-AC inverter and you could power your house for a day or two during extended outages.

Actually, yes. I was enquiring about house batteries and $10,000 for 10kwh is a bit on the nose considering my 28kwh in the car cost me $11,000, so a couple of google searches later I have a $300 inverter that thinks my battery is a solar array and I can indeed power some of my house at least, probably not legal to hook it into the house wiring but can use extension cables to fridge, modem etc.

I just need a decent enclosure for the inverter to keep fingers away, this is dangerous with exposed 240v screw connectors on the outside. A pelican case or something ??

(After re watching the video, its a little confusing. At first I try to run the 240v power saw with just the cars 12V battery hooked up, Initially the 144V EV battery is not live, until 2nd test where I switch the car on then the 144V is flowing into the PV input on the inverter. ) It just demonstrated I can get 240VAC from the 144V DC.

Brilliant - so even your old tech has V2L. Why spend money on a house battery when you can have a mobile battery in an EV.

Just be mindful that cheap inverters are the ones more likely to fail which in turn will initiate a fire.

Set up right should be no different to setting up a switch over to feed a 2.2kVA generator into the house. As long as you are not feeding the grid.