Who has a V2G EV installation

AgentGeorge · 2025-07-08T12:28:58Z

Octopus are pushing their EV rental scheme, and the latest addition is their first offering of a BYD Dolphin with V2G, Vehicle to Grid, built in, it needs a wall port that will also do V2G The offer includes free charging for the year, up to 12000 miles. The EV batteries are typically 40-50kWh and upwards, thats a huge difference to the average home battery installation of 5kWh The advert says you set the minimum charge left in the EV battery you will need the next day, and the rest is made available to the grid

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05/11/2025 9:10 am

Posted by: @agentgeorge

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What is foxing me with doing this is getting the type B rcd for CU I have, so I cant move the ASHP from its Cinch CU which has the type B in it :-/

Would that be a Chint RCD perhaps?

Have a look at this topic on high current trips, where I mention a number of potential manufacturers and suppliers for the trip being sought by BatPred.

For the benefit of others wanting to follow this discussion,
this chart shows the features found in the four types of earth leakage trip:

The majority of EV chargers are installed using a Type-A trip.

But the OVO Trial of V2G chargers five years ago showed that there was a significant DC component in the fault leakage current.
So they installed Type-B trips from then on.

Type-B RCD trips used to be very rare, and cost more than £200 each.

For a V2G charger, it would also need to be bi-directional of course.

It was usually the case that the installer needed a separate RCD and MCB.

However, we are now starting to see manufacturers responding to the market, and designing an RCBO Type-B.

This one from Proteus is also C-curve.
That means the trip-time is slower than the usual B-curve we find in domestic installations.

A C-curve is less prone to spurious tripping from switch-on surge currents

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10/01/2026 2:37 pm

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Id also add to this thread that V2G (Vehicle to Grid) is not necessarily the same as V2H (Vehicle to Home). Allowing an energy provider to offtake your car charge to support the grid, wont necessarily allow you to use the car battery to run your ASHP or other home appliances.

I am wondering if in any V2X, would the car battery ever send DC to the EV plug or always AC?

And what happens when a V2X car is plugged into a recent EV charger not designed for it, does it just not work or can it cause any issues if the car attempts to export?

16kWh Seplos Fogstar battery; 8kW Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS hybrid inverter; Ohme Home Pro EV charger; 100Amp head, HA lab on mini PC

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