CASE STUDY: Kildare Family Home – Integrated Heating, Cooling & EV Charging with EVHACS
Location: Co. Kildare, Ireland
Home Type: 4-bed detached family home
Systems Installed:
- 6kW Mitsubishi Electric wall-mounted air conditioner (PKA-RP60KAL)
- EVHACS 6kW power inverter heat pump with integrated 7.4kW EV charger
- EVHACS Remote Tethered system
- Additional EVHACS 7.4kW Standalone Charger
- Whole-home load balancing via EllIoT
Installer: AAC
Client Overview
This busy 4-bed family home in Co. Kildare accommodates two working parents and two young children. The home had undergone a rear kitchen extension that struggled with temperature extremes, too cold in winter and excessively warm in summer.
After purchasing their first EV and experiencing the efficiency and financial benefits firsthand, the family wanted to future-proof their home with comfortable heating and cooling as well as a scalable EV charging solution.
Challenge
The family needed a system capable of addressing two parallel demands:
- A temperature-controlled kitchen extension that was comfortable year-round.
- A flexible EV charging setup suited to a household now running two electric vehicles with varying daily mileage.
Key technical requirements:
- Integrate heating, cooling and EV charging without overloading household supply
- Provide safe, reliable night-rate charging for two EVs
- Ensure simple control for all family members without increasing complexity
- Maintain a clean, unobtrusive installation
Traditional setups would require separate heating/cooling equipment and separate EV chargers with their own load management. The homeowners specifically wanted a system that avoided this fragmentation.
Solution
EVHACS installed a 6kW Mitsubishi Electric PKA-RP60KAL wall-mounted air conditioner, powered through an EVHACS 6kW power inverter heat pump with an integrated 7.4kW charger using the Remote Tethered system. This provided precise, efficient climate control directly to the kitchen extension while enabling EV charging from the same unit.
After purchasing their second EV, the family expanded their charging capacity with an EVHACS 7.4kW Standalone Charger, chosen so both chargers could operate under the same EllIoT energy management platform.
Integrated System Highlights
- Two EVHACS chargers (integrated + standalone) operating as a unified network
- EllIoT load balancing across:
- EV charging
- Heating & cooling
- Total household consumption
- Remote Tethered EVHACS design enabling flexible placement and tidy cable management
- Single smartphone app for both chargers, reducing learning curves for multiple household users
- Direct response to fluctuating Irish climate conditions in the kitchen extension
This approach created a household energy ecosystem, not just an EV charging setup.
Results
The home now benefits from:
- Stable year-round comfort in the kitchen, eliminating cold mornings and overheated afternoons
- Balanced, safe power use, even when both EVs are charging and heating/cooling is active
- Reduced installation cost compared to running two independent systems
- A unified app experience, allowing parents and even older children to manage charging with ease
- Future-proof capability, with space to incorporate solar PV and further energy upgrades later
The family now enjoys a seamless combination of comfort and electrified transport—managed automatically by EllIoT to suit the real-time needs of a busy household.
Why EVHACS
EVHACS creates a single, integrated system for managing three of the highest electrical loads in a modern home: heating, cooling, and EV charging. Instead of installing isolated systems that compete for power, EVHACS unifies them under one intelligent control layer, ensuring stability, safety, and efficiency.
For this Kildare family, the ability to operate two chargers and a heat pump through one EllIoT platform eliminated complexity and allowed the home to grow its electrification without additional infrastructure changes. EVHACS reduces installation overheads, simplifies energy management, and provides a scalable foundation for fully electrified homes.