How does Hyundai and Kia's vehicle-to-load, or V2L, tech actually work? We've plugged in!
V2L means an electric vehicle can become a wheeled power source via a simple adaptor that plugs directly into the charger socket. So instead of power going in to charge the battery, charge is sent outwards, via the adaptor, to whatever you have plugged in.
The adaptor looks just like a charger plug, but a cap opens on one end to reveal a domestic electrical socket. Plug your device into the adaptor first, then plug the adaptor into the car's charging socket. And that's all you need to do. Your car is now a roving power provider that can bring electricity to outdoors activities, from the useful to the entirely frivolous. It might be that you'll plug your electric mower in to the car to trim your front lawn without trailing an extension cord through the house. Or you could use the car to charge an e-bike, or boil a kettle, or pump up an inflatable dinghy...Or you could do what we did and play Forza Horizon 4 in CAR's office car park.
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