Request: MC4 Connectors for Solar HV Battery Charging

[joewilk45]

Google nio battery swap video that's cool option not just for long trips. But if all EV's were that easy to access and replace one would think battery replacement and repairs would be much cheaper and easier to replace

 

[LIGHTNING EV9]

The optional ability to charge the HV battery with solar would be great. Some EV/PHEV owners do this now, but it requires a solar generator and other costs, complexities, and inefficiencies. I know the realities of the range added, array size, etc.

many of us fall into the unfortunate dream that somehow 'solar', as a simplistic 'plug-in' power source, can manage to 'charge' a HUGE and HIGH VOLTAGE battery, with very little, and very inconsistent, power from the sun. I've been there: took two large solar panels on the top of the Motorhome, to Alaska, to 'help' keep the house battery bank charged: 4 6v 100ah batteries in series, parallel, for 12v output, to our 120v Inverter, for interior power for the fridge, tvs, outlets, etc. This was really only to 'help', when sun was available... there's no way it would actually provide any consistent power to the inverter, on it's own, otherwise.

yes, the idea, in it's simplicity, has merit, but to miss the point about the huge crevasse between simple solar and a very large and very high-voltage battery is unfortunate... it's like saying you might be able to jump the grand canyon with a bicycle, if you only get a long enough downhill
'run at it'...

simple solar is good for VERY LOW voltage needs, and over a very short timeframe... the term 'solar', itself, is so overused. It's like saying your car's little low-voltage 12v battery can power your EV down the road several miles, in an emergency, if you just give it enough time.

Yes, everything is possible. Few things are actually probable. Sadly.

 

[mkennedy009]

I do like the battery swap, I would do it when my battery starts to fail and get a better one.