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Joined: 26/09/2020
Location: AustraliaPosts: 647
| Posted: 09:19am 20 Jul 2023 |
We are toying with the idea of having an EV.
We live totally off grid at the moment with around 5kw of solar panels.
We would add more panels to the system but are wondering what the simplest way would be to charge an EV off a solar system.
eg.
Could it be charged straight of DC from the panels?
Would we need a battery bank and inverter to even out the load variations from the solar panels?
We would probably drive around 150 to 200 klm a week.
From what I have read on the forum this would mean we would need enough panels to supply around 15 to 20 kwh to the batteries.
Of course there are cloudy days to take into account.
I am just looking at possibilities at the moment, and interested in the simplest system possible.
I would prefer a very simple car too, but the commercial varieties seem overly complicated to me.
over to you folk
Pete