Tesla Owners Can Soon Charge EVs at Home Using Excess Solar Power

Tesla might soon allow EV homeowners to power up their cars by only using surplus solar power. This update is first seen in a code from a Tesla mobile app on Twitter.

Tesla Mobile App Hints on 'Excess Solar Power' Feature

According to a report by Teslarati, the new Tesla app coding teases that an upcoming update will emphasize the use of excess solar energy in charging Tesla cars at home.

"Plug in your vehicle at home during the day to charge using the excess clean energy generated by your solar system. Set your charge limits and location and tell your vehicle when and where to charge only from excess solar," the update says.

Setting the battery that a Tesla car driver will use for his/her daily driving range will come into effect, as the coding suggests.

In doing so, you can save a lot of energy from your EV's battery by allowing the vehicle to charge only when there's excess solar energy.

Is Tesla Really 'Green?'

It's interesting to know why Tesla decided to add this feature to its modern automobiles. It could be the company's way to "lowkey" join a clean energy program as more firms plan to go green for the next decade.

By implementing the changes, homeowners will only need to use a renewable source of energy. In that process, both the charging and driving process won't depend on the use of fossil fuels which are contributing to the worsening air pollution in some parts of the world.

If that's the case, we can't argue that Tesla walks the talk when it comes to environment-friendly policies. More people hope that more companies will follow this setup.

The optimization of EVs and solar energy is a good example of smart energy usage, nonetheless even though Tesla CEO Elon Musk's "first love" is a gas-powered car.

Long Overdue But a Good Move

According to Andrew Gladwell who happened to stumble on Electrek's forum, what Tesla did was a good move, but long overdue.

Gladwell shares that a Blighty-based firm My Energy has been doing the process for many years. What the company does is allow users to charge their vehicles (using a Zappi charger) with any access instead of exporting the remaining energy back to the grid.

Meanwhile, Notebookcheck reports that a new batch of V4 Supercharger stations is already in Europe. According to rumors, these EV charging stations are capable of delivering up to 350 KW of power.

At the time, Tesla remained silent about their full potential so it's best to take this information with a grain of salt for now.

Elsewhere, Tech Times reported that a YouTuber sold his Rivian R1S to buy a brand-new Tesla Model Y. It seems that the content creator quickly changed his mind after criticizing some features of the Tesla EV recently.