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Charging your electric car

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THE PERFECT COMBINATION: CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR WITH SOLAR POWER

Anyone switching to an electric car today can make an important contribution to our climate, but it is important to charge an electric car with green electricity. The best way to do this is with solar power from your own photovoltaic system. The electricity from your own roof is clean and truly cost-effective.

Advantages of sustainable e-mobility

Reduce costs
Charge your electric car using cost-effective solar power from your own roof.

Increase self-consumption
Use the majority of your own solar power and feed less into the grid.

Reduce CO2emissions
Power your car using green electricity without emissions, reduce your ecological footprint and ensure better air quality.

CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR WITH COST-EFFECTIVE SOLAR POWER

Solar power is the cheapest form of electricity today. Therefore, it also makes financial sense to charge your electric car with solar power - preferably from your own photovoltaic system. This means that your electric car will not only run on green electricity, but also on extremely cost-effective electricity.

Due to the cost advantage you have when charging, the electric car pays for itself even faster. Incidentally, in the long term, electric cars will achieve further price advantages over cars with combustion engines because they require less maintenance. 

USE AS MUCH OF YOUR OWN SOLAR POWER AS POSSIBLE

A photovoltaic system pays off for everyone. However, the investment will pay for itself more quickly if you use as much of your own electricity as possible. You can achieve a particularly high level of self-consumption if you charge your electric car with PV electricity.

With the help of Fronius charging solutions, you can ensure that your electric car automatically charges when there is surplus PV power available in the household. This means that you charge your car exclusively with electricity that would otherwise flow unused into the public grid.

The Fronius Wattpilot is the ideal charging box for anyone who wants to charge their electric car flexibly and cheaply at home and on the road. 

  • Cost-effective charging with flexible electricity tariffs
  • Charge with surplus energy from solar systems
  • Intelligent charging modes for affordable and plannable charging
  • Simple operation and app for even more overview and flexibility

Charging an electric car with solar power – here’s how it works

Here’s how you can harness the energy from your own roof for use throughout the home.

KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM AT ALL TIMES

With the free Fronius Solar.web monitoring tool, you can keep an eye on your energy yield and consumption at all times and get the most out of your photovoltaic system.

  • Ensure functionality
  • Shorten the payback period
  • Expose energy guzzlers
  • Analyse and optimise energy consumption
  • Keep the system up-to-date
  • Save more money with individual extensions
  • Extend warranty free of charge
More about system monitoring

E-mobility for businesses

Are you interested in e-mobility solutions for your company?
Click here for our solar & charging solutions for commercial businesses.

"Why we chose the Fronius Wattpilot Go is quite simple. It is mobile, which is very important to us. You can take it with you anywhere. So I can charge my electric car where and when I want."

 

Gernot Gugerbauer, 
Electric car driver and Fronius Wattpilot user

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