Solar EV Charging ☀️ 4 Ways to Charge your Electric Car! #evcharging #solarenergy #goe

Do you have a solar system at home or are you thinking of investing in one? Then you can save even more when you charge your electric car. Because if your PV system produces more power than your house actually needs on a sunny day, it makes much more sense to use it for your electric car than to feed it into the grid. We will explain in this video why that’s so and how you can make the very best use of your solar surplus to cut costs. ▬ Video Content ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - 00:22: Intro 00:23 - 01:03: EV Charging with solar surplus 01:04 - 01:23: 4 Ways to Charge with Solar Surplus 01:24 - 02:13: Solar surplus EV charging without any control 02:14 - 02:53: Solar surplus charging using an API interface 02:54 - 04:26: Dynamically via smart wallbox 04:27 - 04:52: Charging with an all-in-one system 04:53 - 05:50 Summary & Outro ▬ 4 methods to charge you EV with pv surplus power ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Solar surplus charging without any control Solar surplus charging using an API interface Dynamic control with a smart wallbox Solar surplus charging with an all-in-one system ▬ Solar surplus charging without any control ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ This is technically the simplest approach, but it’s also the least convenient. It requires manual effort and a fair bit of experience. With no control system in place, your wallbox has no idea how much solar power is available. So you’d need to keep checking if the sun’s shining and you have to manually start and stop charging. In practice, this is really just trial and error. You’d also have to check your meter to see if you’re actually exporting power to the grid or if your household is already using everything your panels produce. Or you could just leave charging running and hope that plenty of solar finds its way into your battery. But if your car needs more power than the panels are producing at that moment, the rest is automatically pulled from the grid – which means paying for the expensive stuff. ▬ Solar surplus charging with an API interface ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Our go-e Charger, for example, comes with a local and cloud-based API. This means that the charging current can be controlled by external, pre-programmed integrations such as Monta. To use one of these, you’ll also need an energy management system. It detects when surplus solar power is available and automatically tells the wallbox to adjust its charging output. Tech-savvy users or PV installers could also set this up by themselves without using an external integration. But that does require some programming skills to make sure the inverter, the energy management system, and the wallbox can communicate with each other. ▬ Dynamic control with a smart wallbox ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The third option is dynamic control using a smart wallbox, like the go-e Charger, together with an energy management system such as the go-e Controller. Here’s how it works: the go-e Controller measures your solar surplus and makes sure it’s efficiently transferred to the car battery, while the go-e Charger looks after the charging process itself. They’re constantly talking to each other. When there’s surplus available, the controller signals the wallbox, and charging ramps up. This way, charging is simple, smart and cost-effective. You don’t need any specialist knowledge. An electrician will just install the go-e Controller in your fuse box, set it up, and from then on it will run automatically according to your preferences. If you’ve got an AC inverter, the controller can even measure total PV production, not just the surplus. And you can also factor in an AC battery storage system. All your household energy data is shown on the Controller’s display and in the go-e app in real time. Another handy feature: the go-e Controller can switch phases automatically. ▬ Charging with an all-in-one solution ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Use an all-in-one solution, where both your PV system and wallbox come from the same manufacturer. In this case, the inverter or smart meter communicates directly with the wallbox. The downside is you may lose some of the flexibility and features of a truly smart wallbox. And these systems can also be a lot more expensive than the other options – so you’ll need to compare carefully. #EVCharging #Wallbox #ElectricCars #EVChargingStation #EV #photovoltaics ▬ go-e Blog ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ https://go-e.com/en/magazine ▬ go-e Shop ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ https://shop.go-e.com/ Follow us: ➡️ Website: https://go-e.com/en/ ➡️ YouTube:    / @go-e   ➡️ Instagram:   / goe.official   ➡️ Facebook:   / goe.mobility   ➡️ LinkedIn:   / go-e-gmbh   ➡️ TikTok:   / go.e.official