Hi,
I'm living in south of France. Bought a ZS EV LR in December 2023, decision taken in one week (!) as the french government wanted to cancel 5000€ aid for all cars made outside of Europe, as per 15/12/2023.
Reading this post, I was quite afraid of the V2L functionnality, as like most of us, this was an important purchase decison feature !
But unlike in UK, V2L stayed on the sales leaflet, and even now it is clearly written (only for the LR cars anyway).
So when I checked the EVCC batch number , good news, I read 11505199, same as the one wich is working.
Then I built a V2L cable. I tied a 470 ohm resistor between PP and PE, and connected CP to PE, and it works ! We can see a lot information about those V2L cables : 'new ones' with a 2000 ohm resistor instead of 470 ohm, and also resistor between PP and CP instead of PP and PE. I haven't tried those yet.
It is strange, those differences between UK, Germany and France for the same car (except the steering wheel !).
In France, we can subscribe a contract with EDF (Energy of France) named tempo, with very interesting energy prices, except for 22 days a year, days with the highest energy demand (between 6am to 10pm) which are called red days
After buying the ZS, I subscribed to that contract.
In my home, I have built a source inverter, with a contactor which gives the ability to switch between the grid or V2L.
It's working. I used for two days now. I switch off all the big consuming loads, before using V2L.
I know that V2L is not V2H !
Voltage from the car is 220V, not 240V.
The cable is made with 2.5mm² wires which gives a limit of 16A (short length).
I think there is a load protection in the car but I've inserted a 15amp circuit breaker between cable and contactor.
I haven't tried yet what is the maximum load (only coffe machine 2kW resistive + lights + computer +internet + NAS) ...
Does anybody have reliable information about the maximum load wich could be drained from the ZS ?
Excuse my bad english, I don't practice enough ....
linuxgalere
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