Use your electric vehicle (EV) as you would normally do, drive where you want go.
In addition, the EV's battery is used to:
Liberty in the name refers to:
V2G Liberty strives for you to be independent of the make/type of charger & car.
The truth now is that only the Wallbox Quasar charger offers (affordable) bidirectional charging. As it is equipped with a CHAdeMo connector, so currently only cars with this connector are supported, see prerequisites.
V2G Liberty strives for you to be independent of power company.
You can choose any contract but V2G is only relevant for contracts with dynamic (e.g. hourly changing) electricity prices.
V2G Liberty is a practical local app that works in the browser and on your phone.
The schedules are optimised to maximise revenues ór minimising emissions. The optimised schedules are produced by FlexMeasures, our smart backend by Seita. While the price optimisation already decreases emissions significantly, you can also choose to take sustainability a step further and optimise for minimising emissions (and still do quite well on savings on charge costs).
Most Dutch energy suppliers are listed and all European energy prices (EPEX) are available for optimisation. For none European markets (e.g. Australia) there is an option to (automatically) upload price data to FlexMeasures.
Read more about V2G Liberty on v2g-liberty.eu or github.com.
Read more about FlexMeasures on flexMeasures.io, seita.nl or github.com.
As said, at the time of writing, 2024-04, only the Wallbox Quasar 1 charger is supported. This is a CHAdeMO compatible charger.
Compatible cars that can do V2G with this protocol are the Nissan Leaf (also earlier models) and Nissan Evalia.
When the Wallbox Quasar 2 is available we expect V2G Liberty to be compatible with this hardware "out of the box". Then also CCS V2G capable cars can be managed with V2G Liberty.
We expect to add new chargers to V2G Liberty soon
Before installing or activation of V2G Liberty, please make sure that charging and discharging with the EV and Quasar charger works properly. Test this with the app supplied with the charger.
You can run your own instance of FlexMeasures, but you can also make use of an instance run by V2G Liberty. If you prefer this option, please contact us.
As said, the software optimizes dynamic prices, so a contract of this type is the best option. There is no rush, though. You can try out V2G Liberty first and later on get the dynamic contract. In the Netherlands there are several suppliers, o.a. Eneco, Vattenfall, ANWB, Tibber, Zonneplan, Energy Zero, etc.
A dynamic contract changes the way your electricity is priced and billed, so it is wise to find information and make sure you really understand what this means for your situation before making this change.
For the situations where you would like the car to be fully charged, e.g. for a longer trip, V2G Liberty optimizes on a dedicated online calendar.This is mandatory, without it V2G Liberty cannot work.
It is of course most useful if the calendar is integrated with your normal calendar and if you can easily edit the calendar items on your smartphone (outside HA / V2G Liberty). Options are, for example:
We recommend a separate calendar for your car reservations. The result must be that in Home Assistant only the events meant for the car are present.
Preferably name the calendar (car_reservation
). If you name(d) it otherwise, update the calendar name in the configuration of V2G Liberty secrets.yaml and in the v2g_liberty_dashboard.yaml
The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward.
https://github.com/V2G-liberty/addon-v2g-liberty.git
settings > add-ons
.add-on shop
.repostitories
.ADD
, wait a little and click Close
.Install
button to install the add-on. This might take
quite a while as several some files.Watch dog
and Automatic update
.Further steps in the proces of installation and configuration are explained in the installed add-on itself.
Charging is fully automatic an optimised, so you can just connect your EV and forget about it. You can tweak the charging process by setting min- and max-limits, min- and max-charge power etc.
This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality. In Home Assistant a notification is shown when a new version is available. We advise you to keep the software up to date.
Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format
of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented
based on the following:
MAJOR
: Incompatible or major changes.MINOR
: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.PATCH
: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.You have several options to get them answered:
You could also open an issue on GitHub.
The original setup of this repository is by Ard Jonker, Seita B.V. and Ronald Pijnacker.
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