Deleted member 1622
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Hello -
Most of the posts here are about people's home systems... I hope to get one someday, but for many of us Leaf owners that's just not an option, either because we don't own a home, won't own the same one for the next 10 years, or the cost is just too prohibitive.
I've been trying to find a more "portable" system that would work something like this: During the day a set of solar panels charges an energy storage device that holds the charge, say up to 10kwh (yes, it's large and heavy, probably). These devices do exist (Aerovironment had one on their Web site for a while, and now it seems they've abandoned it). Then at night you plug your Leaf into this device, and it charges the car at L2 like you would from your regular charger. When that device runs down, you switch to your dedicated circuit in the garage for any remaining charge you need.
Can anyone help me figure out whether this is possible, and which company might be able to provide it? I know the limitations... no storage device will have 24 kwh worth of charge for the car, but even a 10 kwh device would fully charge my Leaf most days. Having this direct solar-to-storage-to-Leaf system would be a great help to those of us who can't afford home systems, AND you have the added satisfaction of doing off-the-grid, direct-from-the-sun charging instead of having to figure out how much sun power you sent to PG&E.
I haven't figured out the part about how, in the middle of the night, the system switches over to the garage charger, but I'm open to ideas.
Thanks,
Josh
Most of the posts here are about people's home systems... I hope to get one someday, but for many of us Leaf owners that's just not an option, either because we don't own a home, won't own the same one for the next 10 years, or the cost is just too prohibitive.
I've been trying to find a more "portable" system that would work something like this: During the day a set of solar panels charges an energy storage device that holds the charge, say up to 10kwh (yes, it's large and heavy, probably). These devices do exist (Aerovironment had one on their Web site for a while, and now it seems they've abandoned it). Then at night you plug your Leaf into this device, and it charges the car at L2 like you would from your regular charger. When that device runs down, you switch to your dedicated circuit in the garage for any remaining charge you need.
Can anyone help me figure out whether this is possible, and which company might be able to provide it? I know the limitations... no storage device will have 24 kwh worth of charge for the car, but even a 10 kwh device would fully charge my Leaf most days. Having this direct solar-to-storage-to-Leaf system would be a great help to those of us who can't afford home systems, AND you have the added satisfaction of doing off-the-grid, direct-from-the-sun charging instead of having to figure out how much sun power you sent to PG&E.
I haven't figured out the part about how, in the middle of the night, the system switches over to the garage charger, but I'm open to ideas.
Thanks,
Josh