You can't drive long road trips in an EV...

I definitely haven't got a 3 pin socket. Maybe it's in the higher spec. Plenty of phone chargers, usb sockets and 12v.

Fingers crossed my freezer doesn't go ti ts up.
 
Ironops said:
This last weekend I went to Swansea from London to see my boy, charged to 100% at home on Octopus 7p overnight tariff - already had 30% in battery so cost was £3.50. Got to Swansea, did some local trips, set off again on Sunday and drove back to Sarn Supercharger at Bridgend with 20% still in my battery, stopped for 25 mins and put another 50% in which cost me £20, arrived home with 10% spare.

Return trip to Swansea for £23.50 - petrol would have cost me a full tank in my previous Audi so about £85.

Saved myself over £60 and all for the inconvenience of 25 mins - during which time I ate a burger, took a dump and completed Wordle. Marvellous!
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You had me until you took a dump at the services 🤣🤣
 
My Ioniq 5 had a 240 socket just above the floor in the back - couldnt use it while it was charging, which is a bit of a shame. It also had a V2L adapter to plug into the charger port. Pretty nifty.
 
The_Tiler said:
Ah, I see. The way I read it, there was a 3pin plug socket in the car.

Most cars have a 12v, so it doesn't really make an EV unique.
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Car batteries are small though, and even a 60Ah battery which is quite a big one that's only going to give 720W of power for an hour, which isn't a lot when a 3 pin plug generally gives up to 2.3kW. Whether the inverter can do 720W is another matter.

A fridge freezer probably uses ~1kW per day, so you might get 2/3rds of a day out of a car battery, but then the battery would be dead of course.

I don't know much about alternators but if the car is running for an hour that would be enough to recharge the battery I would think.
 
Andy_W said:
Car batteries are small though, and even a 60Ah battery which is quite a big one that's only going to give 720W of power for an hour, which isn't a lot when a 3 pin plug generally gives up to 2.3kW. Whether the inverter can do 720W is another matter.

A fridge freezer probably uses ~1kW per day, so you might get 2/3rds of a day out of a car battery, but then the battery would be dead of course.

I don't know much about alternators but if the car is running for an hour that would be enough to recharge the battery I would think.
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I'm onto a winner again my diesel van has 3 pin sockets and I can use it when I'm plugged in,or hooked up as its known.😎😁

We also have a leisure battery, they are different to standard car batteries.
We can run the 12 volt system in the van for 2 or 3 days this includes the lights TV and the fridge.👍

Apparently car batteries are designed to give a large amount of power over a short period,to start the car.
Leisure batteries give a steady amount of power over a longer period.
 
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Redpete said:
I'm onto a winner again my diesel van has 3 pin sockets and I can use it when I'm plugged in,or hooked up as its known.😎😁

We also have a leisure battery, they are different to standard car batteries.
We can run the 12 volt system in the van for 2 or 3 days this includes the lights TV and the fridge.👍

Apparently car batteries are designed to give a large amount of power over a short period,to start the car.
Leisure batteries give a steady amount of power over a longer period.
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Yeah vans have bigger batteries too and diesel even better/ bigger.

Leisure battery even better than this (y)

And yup, takes some juice to start a car and turn it over etc, for a very short time, think it's over 200 amps.
 
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