Often Used By V2L, Can You Make Electric Car Battery Drop? This Is What BYD Said

Use of V2L in BYD M6 electric cars. (Photo: Afrizal-VOI)

JAKARTA - Almost every latest electric car is equipped with Vehicle to Load (V2L) features where it can transfer car battery power to power electric equipment.

Including the MPEV BYD M6 model which just launched during GIIAS 2024. When trying this car directly with the Jakarta-Bandung-Jakarta route, BYD presents live music with power that is channeled directly from the car or using the V2L feature.

Of course, not a few have asked whether using this feature often can make electric car batteries problematic? It's like a power bank when it is often used, it will make the battery drop.

"If this (V2L) is not at all, the use of power is the same as that of a car being used on the road," said Head of Product of PT BYD Motor Indonesia Bobby Baratha, when met in the Bandung area, West Java, Thursday, August 8.

Bobby revealed that for example, this V2L only reduces the State of Charge (SoC), in the long term the battery drops because it is often used, it is impossible because of this.

As is known, SoC itself is a parameter used to determine the contents of the battery and is used as a guide to monitor the current capacity of the battery.

He further said that the use of V2L had no effect on battery health or State of Health (SoH).

"Although V2L is often used, it doesn't matter, SoH, especially in the long term," he added.

Actually, according to him, the use of V2L is often used to accompany camping or go on long trips abroad, it's just that Indonesia has not become a trend.

"If there are many people abroad who use it, here it's not from the place yet, it's not much," he concluded.