Hyundai has discovered an attention-grabbing strategy to promote the Ioniq 5’s Car-to-Load (V2L) expertise: powering a reindeer farm in Norway’s Arctic area.

Positioned within the distant and freezing wilderness exterior of Tromsø, deep inside Norway’s Arctic Circle, the reindeer farm was powered for 3 days—however not constantly—by the Ioniq 5, which additionally equipped vitality to an off-grid cabin for a comfy dinner.

All this was performed utilizing the Ioniq 5’s V2L operate, which was put to the final word check in a area of the world that exists off {the electrical} grid. The Hyundai EV efficiently accomplished the position of a transportable energy supply regardless of challenges like restricted entry to a dependable and clear supply of vitality and opposed climate situations.

In line with Hyundai, this demonstrates that individuals residing in distant, off-grid areas can profit from V2L, which provides them the power to energy and cost their digital units with out producing emissions. After all, this implies the Ioniq 5’s battery needs to be totally charged beforehand in a spot that has entry to electrical energy.

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The automaker says this expertise answer can successfully exchange fuel-powered aggregates with the ability from EV batteries.

In the event you’re unfamiliar with V2L, it describes a bi-directional energy switch by which the vitality saved in an electrical car’s battery is transferred to an electrical gadget. To supply this operate, the software program of the EV should assist an onboard converter that converts direct present (DC) from the battery into alternating present (AC).

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 include V2L capabilities as normal because the E-GMP structure on which they’re primarily based options an Built-in Charging Management Unit (ICCU) that enables electrical energy to circulation each to and from the car’s battery. Hyundai electrical autos primarily based on E-GMP can function and cost different electrical equipment (110/220 V), very similar to energy banks on 4 wheels.  

Within the Ioniq 5, a 220-volt V2L outlet is situated under the rear seats, whereas an extra exterior recharging outlet, which requires a selected adapter from Hyundai Mobis, can provide as much as 3.6 kW of energy. In line with Hyundai‘s calculations, the Ioniq 5 might energy the Tromsø Arctic Reindeer farm constantly for half a day—primarily based on estimated consumption of 32.5 kWh per day for the farm, which runs on electrical energy for 13 hours a day.