Was reading on the Renault Zoe subreddit about fitting an Inverter because this Car has No V2L, and i thought about that in the past but never did it because why throw Money at Something where i can’t think of usecases other than ‘it would be neat’. So to the people who have V2L, what are you using it for?
240V won’t power both phases of your house unless it supplies two split phase 120V legs like US utilities. 240V alone would only power 240V-only appliances like an electric stove, (or, ironically, a 240V EVSE.)
I am in US :) so if a vehicle here supports 240v with V2L it would for sure be one with a nema 14-50 outlet or similar with two 120v hots.
No, NEMA 14-50 outlets have two 240 hots and one neutral that divide the 240 service into two 120Vs (each “side” uses one hot and the neutral. EVs typically only provide two hots (no neutral) so they output either 240V only or 120V only. A 240V EV output would lack the necessary 120V neutral.
That doesn’t make sense to me so a source would really be nice. For example ioniq 5 V2L adapter has a regular US outlet where one is hot (120v), one is neutral and other is ground. There must be a neutral for it to work.
If you are saying they can only have one hot, then I can understand nema 14-50 not working but I am pretty sure it can be solved with additional equipment. There are already bidirectional chargers that I would be fine with purchasing as long as there is a standard.
Todd’s wrong. A 14-50 has two 120 V hots to ground and neutral. They are out of phase so you get 240 V between the two 120 V hots.