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My suggestion: use commercially available panels. They'll be more reliable, carry a warranty, & cost less. Go for a grid-tied system which...
Any of these solar powered options will require the use of a battery, charge controller, and inverter. A solar panel's output is not steady enough...
Easily 3 grand just for the panels. Figure another couple of grand for a set of batteries, charge controller, and inverter.
I didn't have a separate meter put in. Just the EVSE.
Sadly, this is true. And if the traction battery dies, yer stuck as well. Both fuel sources need to be present and working for the car to work....
At least in the Gen II's, it won't let you continue to run on battery past a certain point. I ran out of gas at least 4 times. I was able to go...
Build your own EVSE if you can. You like to tinker. This a project right up your alley. The cost for me to have an EVSE put in was $500 for the...
PG&E charges me a $13 to $15 fee every month to be connected to the grid. I pay this whether or not I have produced a surplus of electricity. So I...
You can build your own EVSE for about $500. There are a number of users on here who have built their own and documented it with pictures. You can...
The POCO has a legitimate interest in making sure that your system is wired properly. Especially at the point where it's connected to your...
You'll easily spend upwards of $2000 on just the purchase and installation of the EVSE itself. The additional installation of the submeter could...
30 kW still seems like a lot. First thing to do is look at your annual electrical consumption. And then start looking for places to improve. Like...
No, they designed the system so that if you need more than about 40 kW of power from the traction motor, the ICE comes on to supply the necessary...
*Everything* in is this car is controlled by the onboard software. They're pretty much all tied together. Look at the stability control system. It...
In which case you won't go as fast as you want to or need to. Or you'll melt the battery and electric motor. And void your warranty. Or you'll...
There is a huge difference between a cheap consumer electronic device that has a built in life span that is around 2 or 3 years and a moderately...
Or I could go into the panel with a clamp-on meter and directly measure things. :-) I've also got UPSes deployed to protect the DVRs and the Mac...
If you charge everyday from empty to full, figure about 3.2 to 3.5 kWh per charge, or about 100 kWh per month. For me, I tend to charge only...
If the cost of it is more than what I expect to save in electricity, then I know what my wife's answer is gonna be...
30 kW? Why would you need a system that huge? No wonder they told you the payback period would be 50 years. Most household grid-tied systems are...
