I’m really interested to know what you think in the comments below.Each review score is between 1 and 10. I can’t wait to try one of these, and we’ll do a review as soon as a product is available. This is particularly important for light EVs like eMotorcycles and could significantly drop the cost and operating cost of all EVs. Those heavy inverters that you are driving around are much better served sitting on the wall of your garage, as long as you have other DC options around. In fact, thinking bigger here, I wonder if products like this, if they become ubiquitous, will eventually take the Inverter out of EVs. In the short term, they can also eliminate the need to build and activate highly polluting and expensive peaker plants. Think of it… instead of being a nuisance to the grid, electric vehicles can actually save the grid during major outages. That’s worth the ~$4,000 alone, and compares favorably to standard battery storage products on the market, including Tesla’s Powerwall.Īdding the ability to send electricity back to the grid or other places during superpeaks makes your EV’s battery all the more valuable. EV owners have these huge batteries sitting in their garages and no way to easily get that power into their homes during emergencies. Obviously this would require some consent, so the EV owner isn’t surprised by a depleted car in the evening.įrankly, it’s about time that a consumer product like this is coming to market. The utilities would be able to draw power to the grid from an EV connected to a Quasar. That means during “Superpeaks,” which typically occur in summer months during heavy air conditioning usage days. In addition, Wallbox is talking to utilities to subsidize their product (in the same way that utilities are subsidizing Tesla Powerwalls) in exchange for some peak power offsetting capability. Nissan says their cars don’t allow themselves to fully discharge, so there is around 20% that is kept for driving.Ī $4,000 product that does that compares very favorably to Tesla’s offering if someone already owns an EV. That’s enough power to keep a typical home going for days. A 60+ kWh Nissan LEAF could offer the same power as four Tesla Powerwalls. Obviously the bigger the EV battery, the more on offer. Quasar’s high voltage bidirectional capability can take power from your car during an outage and send it immediately to your home in the same way a Tesla Powerwall does. Currently, the only way to take power out of an EV is with an inverter connected to the 12V subsystem. EV owners typically have 50-100 kWh of power sitting in their car that could be used to power their home during an outage. The real value for most EV owners will be the ability to use their car as a backup to their home like a Tesla Powerwall. I imagine many Livewire owners would want this for that capability alone.īut that’s just scratching the surface. That means that a Harley Davidson Livewire, for instance, which charges only at level 1 AC overnight or Level 3 at DC chargers, can fully charge at your home in about an hour. Part of what Quasar does is take the inverter out of the car and puts it on the wall. Frankly, Tesla should be building this themselves. A Tesla version is also being considered, but would require Tesla’s blessing. The one demonstrated below is Chademo and works only with Nissan Leafs and Mitsubishi Outlanders PHEVs currently, but CCS combo versions are being worked on right now. Where it’s different is that it interfaces with the DC charge port of your EV.
QUASAR AIR CONDITIONERS INSTALL
From the install standpoint, it offers the same 7.4kW (240Vx 32A) of power to your car. But that box you see above is infinitely more capable than current level 2 charging boxes (which Wallbox also makes). Quasar is about the size of current Level 2 charging offerings from leaders like Chargepoint, Juicebox, and others. Let me tell you why this will seem like a bargain and should be in every EV owner’s home (in one form or another) in a few short years.
That’s a heavy price for a home charger that most EV owners currently pay ~$500 for. Quasar is a bidirectional DC charger for homes that is expected to retail for around $4,000. Alfaro spent seven years at Tesla leading its Supercharging team across the US, among other roles. Today at CES, I got to meet up with Douglas Alfaro, the North American head of Wallbox, a Spanish charging technology maker who has a game-changing product for EV owners called the Quasar.
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