Portable power Station with EV J-plug

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3600w portable power station with an EV charging port / J-plug.

It won't get you far, but it might be a nice piece of kit to have in the trunk if you're going on a long trip through unknown parts.

Would be better if it was an NACS plug. Maybe that's coming soon!
 
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yeah it's certainly not infinite. I guess you could also pack a solar panel array with you and park for a few hours mid day to charge it up and go another 20 miles :D

what's a realistic distance from 3kwh? 15, 20 miles?
 
My 2019 Model 3, tuned, gets -4 mi/kWh from kWh already in the battery. But charging a battery from another battery will have significant losses. My home solar battery only provides ~86% of the solar power from the roof. There is a loss converting AC-to-DC for the battery and later, DC-to-AC from the battery into . . . the car AC-to-DC charger.

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so, more like 12 miles on a good day, downhill, with a tailwind. Not really worth it i guess. but, if you were camping for a week and parked most the time, you could recharge at the camp site.
 
This battery provides a way to test the actual remaining range after your EV warns you it's running out of juice.

After you conduct this test, you still have a battery you can use for picnics, tailgates, etc. (or you can return it?).
 
I don't get it. Just a battery that can power camping or tools, and charge an EV? Obviously not very much with only 3.6kWh battery. Why not just use your EV with V2L to power everything, no need for a separate battery pack?
 
You can hook solar arrays to recharge the power bank. I don't think it's possible to run an xt60 from a panel into an mppt into a macs or j plug
 
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3600w portable power station with an EV charging port / J-plug.

It won't get you far, but it might be a nice piece of kit to have in the trunk if you're going on a long trip through unknown parts.

Would be better if it was an NACS plug. Maybe that's coming soon!
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I think the port is to charge it from an EVSE and not that it will work like an EVSE

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OK, that would make more sense. But even with that, why not just power your stuff directly from the BEV instead of going through that battery?
 
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OK, that would make more sense. But even with that, why not just power your stuff directly from the BEV instead of going through that battery?
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That is a different discussion...what is the point of a portable battery generator when you have a BEV. I keep one to power the fridges in case of power failure and i can still drive my car.
My BEV does not have V2L directly ( i have seen videos of people putting 1 to 1.5 kW inverters on their BEV's)....but i can recharge the generator via the 12V port of the car but have not tried it yet as the longest power failure since i bought the battery backup has been 7 hours and the 1.5kWh was enough to keep the fridges going.
 
Seems odd that all the other outlets in that outline area are outputs (120ac, 30amp ac), not inputs but looking at the specs a bit more, you're right. it's for charging the power station from your EV (input).

And, i agree with you a bit -- if you have the car, just plug in there.

Perhaps you can take this with you to a park and lug 100lbs up the hill to have a picnic with power. lol
 
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That is a different discussion...what is the point of a portable battery generator when you have a BEV. I keep one to power the fridges in case of power failure and i can still drive my car.
My BEV does not have V2L directly ( i have seen videos of people putting 1 to 1.5 kW inverters on their BEV's)....but i can recharge the generator via the 12V port of the car but have not tried it yet as the longest power failure since i bought the battery backup has been 7 hours and the 1.5kWh was enough to keep the fridges going.
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Actually, before I owned a BEV with V2L, I did use an inverter attached to a 12V to power some appliances during a power outage. In particular, I have salt water aquariums that can't go too long without flow (from pumps) and can't let temps drop too low. And I did use that set up a couple times. But have never had an outage long enough to require plugging in the freezer or fridge. House heat is OK, too, with our 2 gas fireplaces. Don't think I would ever need to power the furnace. As it happened, over the Xmas holidays (during coldest time of year so far), our furnace failed, and took almost a week before we could get it repaired. But had no problem keeping the house warm with our gas fireplaces.

Even if you have to plug in the fridge or freezer you don't need it plugged in all the time. Once the temps are cooled down, it will last many hours. They are very well insulated.
 
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