Ring that DCBEL – A revolutionary fast EV charger and solar inverter for the home

Source: David Dodge · GREEN ENERGY FUTURES · | September 8, 2021

Bidirectional EV charger can power your home in a blackout

What if you could install a device in your home that charges your electric vehicle twice as fast, is an inverter for your solar system, and is smart enough to save money on electricity?

Ring that bell, that’s exactly what Montreal entrepreneur, Marc André Forget has done with his device he’s aptly named he DCBEL R16. It’s a super-fast electric vehicle charger, it’s a solar inverter and it’s a home energy station that can help consumers optimize their energy use thanks to artificial intelligence.

The R16 is an electric vehicle charger that will charge your vehicle two to three times faster than a level II home charger.

“It’s also what we call a bi-directional EV charger so for the first time, this charger can not only charge your car faster, but we can use the car to send power back to your home,” says Marc André Forget, CEO of DCBEL. It can isolate the home and power it during a blackout.

In fact, the R16 looks just like a vehicle charger and mounts on the wall of your home or garage.

But it’s also a solar inverter that converts the DC energy from your solar modules into AC energy that can be used in the home or exported to the grid.

And finally, the R16 is a smart home/grid hub that features an onboard operating system called “Orchestrate” that uses artificial intelligence to manage and optimize all of your energy systems.

“If your price of electricity is very high at dinner time around your area, you’re going to store your excess of solar [energy] in your car or your battery and reuse that energy at dinner time to reduce your utility invoice.”

Got solar, got an electric vehicle, want to optimize your use of solar energy? The DCBEL R16 is a fast vehicle charger, a solar inverter, and a smart energy management system for your home all in one device.

The Smart Grid We Need

The idea of selling electricity when the price is high and buying when it’s low may not be of much interest to many folks in Canada because our grids are pretty dumb and the policies governing them are not much better.