Don't believe everything you read! Definitely not possible to do this without some sort of high-power buck/boost converter in-between the EVs. Even a 50kW capable unit is going to probably weigh 50lbs minimum even if built very well.
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 8:42 AM Peter VanDerWal via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Stumbled across this article: > > https://www.motortrend.com/features/how-to-flat-tow-recharge-electric-vehicles/ > > which had an interesting comment: > "...the Rivian R1T and R1S, Lucid Air, and Ford F-150 Lightning all offer > bi-directional charging and a cord with a CCS Combo 1 charging plug on both > ends." > > Cool! First I've ever heard of this. > > Just curious how this would work. Obviously the donor vehicle would have > to provide the appropriate CCS communications to convince the recipient to > engage it's HV contactors. > > Would this charge be controlled in any way, or do they just connect both > batteries together and hope none of the magic smoke leaks out? > > Without having a massive DC-DC converter in between, I'd guess the charge > would basically stop when the batteries in both vehicles reach roughly the > same SOC. > > -Pete. > > My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20211024/a2ef60c8/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
