Idea on EV detection

@ray
As a Tesla owner, I’m also looking for Tesla to pick up my Model 3, but I’m looking more to their current efforts based on what they learned from their first go round, than a major change in strategy repurposing the solar CTs. Why ?

  • they already have one-off support for 3 or 4 models. My wife’s Model S identifies fairly well on the HPWC at 80A. So they have shown it is possible.
  • they are working on a new flavor of long window identifications, that aligns better with car charging power ramp-ups.
  • if you have Sense solar today, you know that the biggest part of the development effort is not the extra clamps, but the SW to make use of the data from the clamps. It’s not just pop the clamps on and measure.
  • I have 2 HPWCs in two different circuits so one pair of extra CTs would’t be enough.

You might want to watch a couple clips from Sense’s recent webinar that discussed EV charging.