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    Powering your house via Soul EV during outage

    Regarding your point about the awkward 12v conversion. I feel the same way. It has to not be good to continually pull power out of the Soul 12v battery that gets "recharged" from the traction battery for any period of time. One would think that battery isnt designed to pull that many amps in and...
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    Powering your house via Soul EV during outage

    thanks notfred. I dont think these units output in US AC. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/CHAdeMO-to-home-station-V2H_60688952440.html?spm=a2700.7724838.2017115.45.29c85a90QhyLLd
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    Powering your house via Soul EV during outage

    Thanks for the feedback. I am thinking about the same thing. The fridge and some lights. here is a device that Mitsubishi has available in Japan and will take years to make available in North America. "In Japan, it’s sold retail and can be used with the Mitsubishi Motors i-MiEV, Nissan Leaf...
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    Upstate NY

    I live just outside Albany NY. Any Soul EV owners nearby?
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    Powering your house via Soul EV during outage

    I found this you tube video about how this person used their Leaf to power a few things using the 12volt battery via an inverter. Idea is the car with close to full traction battery can constantly charge the 12 volt battery that then feeds a directly connected 12 volt inverter to power AC items...
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    Forgetting the charge door

    I have the same problem. Have done the same thing multiple times. No indication on the instrument cluster I left the door and charge port cover, open. Not a good thing, I imagine if driven in the rain... I have a 2018 Soul EV
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