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I suppose seeing it as a discount is a good way to look at it. Some accessories I would like to wait on and buy later rather than roll in with the vehicle purchase. The hard part for me is that the NEMA14-50 I have now may do the job just fine for my driving habits but if not then I miss out “saving” $200 by buying later.
Sky did you experience power problems in TX during that big storm? Is that driving the V2H possibility? I’m a novice with regard to this and make my wife rub sticks together quickly as I finish reading the Sunday paper sports section for kindling. (I toss the Parade section in right away).
Yes, lost power during the coldest part & it was pretty rough. We're on a well too, but did have plenty of drinking water & filled a bath tub with water as well as soon as they started talking about possible power problems (thanks hurricane planning from my time in Houston).
If it's rare and irregular, couldn't you plug things directly into your massive battery? Seems simpler to me than expensive and complicated V2H for the once a decade event.
The battery is 385 VDC, To plug into the house you have to have ± 120V AC which means you have to have an inverter (actually 2, one for + and one for - or alternatively a gounding transformer), You also need a bunch of control and safety stuff. A box like the WallBox Quasar contains the inverter and controil stuff as does the new Ford charger for their 150.
Around here we lose it lots in the summer too as powerful thunderstorms seem equally effective at toppling trees and shearing off branches as wet snow.
Can you order the Wall Charger to arrive before your Vehicle arrives?
Not my well, or the fan for my heatilator fireplace.
I just had a whole house genset installed in case "the big one" hits and we're out for weeks. I'll be able to charge my Rivian via the travel charger on the dryer plug!
Summary - check with your local utility for potentially way better deals on EVSE than anyone, including Rivian, could carge you.
The word "massive" caught my eye. Take a look at the first picture in No. 9. The big box on wheels is a 6 kWh Yeti Li ion battery. It is pretty massive (that's why it's built into a wheeled cart) in terms of its weight but for its size it is also pretty "massive" in terms of how much energy it stores. Your well pump may indeed start at 2 - 3 kW but it probably runs at under 1 kW. The fan for your fireplace probably runs at a couple of hundred watts. The Yeti will handle either of those (but for the well you'd have to step up to 220 V (which is what the transformer on the top of the Yeti in the picture is there for). One of these will easily take you through a short outage (which most are) but the obvious question is "If the power is out for a week, how do I charge it?" The answer is solar but everything is not beer and skittles even with solar the problem being, of course, that it's going to take a long time to charge it fully from solar and you have to have the panels.
There is no better way to bring power outages to a shrieking halt than to blow a whole bunch of $ on oversized whole house generator. But properly sized one with automatic load shedding is a great comfort and can carry you for as long as the power is out (provided the propane truck can make it to your door). The thing I don't like about V2H is that you are using fuel you may need to get out of Dodge to run the house. Conversely, with the generator, you can charge your escape means (though, curiosly, Tesla admonishes us not to charge our cars from generators which are "privately owned").
I have asked customer service. At this point in time the answer is they are not available. They are supposed to let me know when they ae available for sale.
Ditto... Did the ChargePoint Home Flex hardwired on a 60amp breaker. But I'm still getting the Rivian charger to simplify charging to just the Rivian app, so that should be an easy DIY replacement. Now what to do with the CP...
