Hello Zach, Thank you for sharing this valuable information. We eagerly await bi- directional/ power share capabilities from all Telsa vehicles and EV manufacturers.
I am lucky enough to own a Genesis GV60 which has bi-directional charging ability. Prior to installing our Franklin battery, we had an outage so I plugged in a powerboard to the car, and ran the fridge and some other appliances and it worked without and issues. The franklin battery allows for charging from a generator so i don't see why it could not be plugged into the car (I don't have this feature installed). Separately, there are chargers which allow for bi-directional power flow already, so there is no reason houses cannot make use of this - I watched a video of an Australian wine refinery which has already done this. So the tech exists, and people have actually set it up already. The main issue is red tap for now, but it seems people are already breaking ground with this tech. the problem with Bi-directional charging is actually charging your car in the first place to use at night. My battery is 13.6kw, which is deep cycled each night - that's 95.2kw of power per week. I only get to really charge my car on the weekend, so i need the power stored in the car to actually run the car during the week. Couple with this, the battery is set and forget. It just works without me having to do anything. So bi-directional charging is not really needed, and i would not spend $5,000 setting it all up to save a few cents per day when my battery already does the heavy lifting. That said, I certainly see this as being pretty mainstream into the future - every charger will eventually be able to do it, and new houses will simply have this as a feature available within the home power box; but i don't think it will be until electric cars have a much larger share of the market, bidirectional chargers are much cheaper, and people are looking to use the car battery to save on getting a house battery (albeit a little more inconvenient).
I wasn’t aware the Genesis could do this! Very cool. Thanks for sharing your experience. And I agree - lots of red tape. The utility regulation alone is a whole nother conversation.
For my EV charger I decided to go with a Tesla Universal Wall Connector just in case in the future when it works with Powerwall 3s for bidirectional charging.
Wish it is only software to enable other teslas. Our X Plaid has a 100kWh pack and would help if we had a multi-day outage. We already have a Powerwall 3 but it’s only 13.5kWh. We also have the dual Anker Solix F3800 set up with a smart panel and expansion batteries adding an extra 30.8kWh.
Woah! If they give you Powershare, you might never need the utility company again with that amount of storage capacity. How do you like your Solix system?
@@ZachSolarso far love the solix set-up just wished the expansion batteries were cheaper. Best I could find online was ~$1600 each but adding the expansion is super easy - just plug them in. I originally called our solar installer to get a quote to add another powerwall 3 added (for extra battery capacity and not additional load capacity) but they weren’t able to since only the fully batteries w/inverters, etc were available. The Anker solix works well since we already have powerwall 3 else I would have had to move circuits to the critical loads panel. When we move, I can easily remove the smart home panel and breaker and take the whole system with me vs the powerwall 3.
I wish Tesla would push this feature to their entire fleet. I don’t think they will until the competition is on their heels. In other words, not anytime soon 😞
Do you all think Tesla will actually release Powershare in 2025 for their other vehicles?
I hope they do, it would be ridiculous if they keep it for CT only. It will be a major factor in my next purchase decision.
@@aec258 I agree and I've heard that from a lot of people. I guess we will see what they do.
Hello Zach, Thank you for sharing this valuable information. We eagerly await
bi- directional/ power share capabilities from all Telsa vehicles and EV manufacturers.
Thanks for watching! Hopefully it comes sooner rather than later 🤞
Great content and presentation. Your channel will blow up keep up the great work
Thank you! Really appreciate that positive feedback ☀️
I am lucky enough to own a Genesis GV60 which has bi-directional charging ability. Prior to installing our Franklin battery, we had an outage so I plugged in a powerboard to the car, and ran the fridge and some other appliances and it worked without and issues. The franklin battery allows for charging from a generator so i don't see why it could not be plugged into the car (I don't have this feature installed). Separately, there are chargers which allow for bi-directional power flow already, so there is no reason houses cannot make use of this - I watched a video of an Australian wine refinery which has already done this. So the tech exists, and people have actually set it up already. The main issue is red tap for now, but it seems people are already breaking ground with this tech.
the problem with Bi-directional charging is actually charging your car in the first place to use at night. My battery is 13.6kw, which is deep cycled each night - that's 95.2kw of power per week. I only get to really charge my car on the weekend, so i need the power stored in the car to actually run the car during the week. Couple with this, the battery is set and forget. It just works without me having to do anything. So bi-directional charging is not really needed, and i would not spend $5,000 setting it all up to save a few cents per day when my battery already does the heavy lifting.
That said, I certainly see this as being pretty mainstream into the future - every charger will eventually be able to do it, and new houses will simply have this as a feature available within the home power box; but i don't think it will be until electric cars have a much larger share of the market, bidirectional chargers are much cheaper, and people are looking to use the car battery to save on getting a house battery (albeit a little more inconvenient).
I wasn’t aware the Genesis could do this! Very cool. Thanks for sharing your experience. And I agree - lots of red tape. The utility regulation alone is a whole nother conversation.
For my EV charger I decided to go with a Tesla Universal Wall Connector just in case in the future when it works with Powerwall 3s for bidirectional charging.
Great decision. I think the Universal is well worth the small price bump.
Wish it is only software to enable other teslas. Our X Plaid has a 100kWh pack and would help if we had a multi-day outage. We already have a Powerwall 3 but it’s only 13.5kWh. We also have the dual Anker Solix F3800 set up with a smart panel and expansion batteries adding an extra 30.8kWh.
Woah! If they give you Powershare, you might never need the utility company again with that amount of storage capacity. How do you like your Solix system?
@@ZachSolarso far love the solix set-up just wished the expansion batteries were cheaper. Best I could find online was ~$1600 each but adding the expansion is super easy - just plug them in. I originally called our solar installer to get a quote to add another powerwall 3 added (for extra battery capacity and not additional load capacity) but they weren’t able to since only the fully batteries w/inverters, etc were available. The Anker solix works well since we already have powerwall 3 else I would have had to move circuits to the critical loads panel. When we move, I can easily remove the smart home panel and breaker and take the whole system with me vs the powerwall 3.
I wish Tesla would push this feature to their entire fleet. I don’t think they will until the competition is on their heels. In other words, not anytime soon 😞
Hopefully it's something they integrate soon. Additionally - I think it'd only boost their Powerwall sales.