Zappi Charger Installation

What is a Zappi EV charger?

Electric vehicles and Hybrid plug-in vehicles all require an EV charger to maintain battery levels and keep vehicles fully charged. They are at charging stations and use an electric current from either a 240v outlet or the grid to power your car’s battery. While normal EV chargers use this method, zappi chargers use self made energy through solar and wind to create charge for electric vehicles. Zappi chargers have a sleek, smart and versatile design.

Domestic Solar PV system integration

With a domestic solar PV system integration, you can now use your surplus energy to charge your vehicle rather than storing or sending that energy back to the grid. If you are at home during the day you can charge your car directly from the solar panels as and when they produce energy.

However, if you are not home during the day or would rather charge your car at night there is no need to worry as you can charge vehicles using stored energy that was generated during the day. This is done by having a solar battery system fitted alongside your solar PV system. By using wind or solar to power your vehicles and home, there will be a huge decrease in monthly household bills and your carbon footprint. With around 460,000 electric vehicles registered in the UK alone, having a zappi charger installation will increase your homes desirability for any EV users, even more so with a solar PV system.

Using Zappi chargers without Solar or wind

If your home does not yet have solar panels or wind turbines, there’s no need to worry as Zappi chargers can be used with and without solar or wind and will still be of substantial benefit to you. The charger comes with features such as, a unique e-sense functionality allowing you the ability to detect when the economy tariffs become available, program the zappi to switch to the best tariff or set timers for when tariffs such as octopus go become available.

Features of the Zappi chargers

Along with having the ability to detect when the economy tariff becomes available, program the zappi to switch to the best tariffs and set timers for when other tariffs become available, there are plenty of other features which make the zappi unique in its design concept. Some of these features are;

A boost function – keeping the battery at a minimum charge level
Energy data logging
Graphical back-lit LCD screen for ease of use
An adjustable charge current limit – allowing an installation to a smaller circuit breaker
Adjustable import power limit – it can be set to limit power drawn by the house when charging

Convenience of charging at home

As mentioned previously there are many factors that make it easy and convenient for you to charge your vehicle at home. Starting from the cost of house bills and the flexibility you have when it comes to charging.

With a Zappi Charger you’re now able to decide how quickly you want your vehicle to be recharged. There are 4 modes that come with the charger, these are fast, eco, eco+ and stop.

With fast charging it allows you to recharge quickly by drawing as much energy as possible.

Eco mode aims to control the power going into you Zappi to match any of the surplus generation. However, if your surplus generation goes below 1.4kW zappi will still charge your vehicle by taking some power form the grid.

Using ECO+ is the same as using ECO but when the surplus energy gets below 1.4kW your charge session will be paused so you do not take any power from the grid. Stop mode will prevent zappi from charging your vehicle.

If you want your car to be charged quickly then you should use the boost modes. The boost modes are Manual, Smart and Scheduled. Manual allows you to charge your vehicle with a set amount of energy, which can be assessed through the app. Smart mode enables you to tell Zappi how much energy you want to add to your vehicle and what your target time is. Zappi will start a quick charge at full power to test the charge speed and then will go back to the normal operation for ECO and ECO+.

Lastly with scheduled boost you can set up to four time periods when the Zappi will charge your vehicle at full power.