Ecoflow Says Subscriptions Aren’t Required For Advanced Features… Yet

EcoFlow has confirmed that it’s presently testing caller precocious features for its PowerStream Balcony Solar System that were made disposable to a mini group of testers “on a paid basis.” After different EcoFlow users raised concerns past week astir nan anticipation of having to net subscription fees for features connected devices they already own, nan institution shared a relationship to its Facebook page connected January 30th saying that it “has not initiated immoderate package costs plans astatine this time” and that it “will not proceed pinch immoderate specified plans until we personification afloat considered and evaluated our personification opinions.”

The institution says nan caller PowerStream features that will beryllium disposable done its mobile app “include cutting-edge technologies tailored to circumstantial captious needs” and that by only making them disposable done a subscription model, users won’t personification to net for precocious features they don’t use. EcoFlow too says nan paid exemplary will fto nan institution to proceed “maintaining and processing these niche but captious caller features.”

EcoFlow too assures users that it has nary plans to fastener its apps and different package features already disposable connected its powerfulness devices down a paywall. “All existing features disposable to PowerStream users enactment unaffected. The halfway functions of these devices will ne'er beryllium taxable to costs thresholds, and you will ne'er beryllium required to make further package payments to usage your devices normally.”

The PowerStream Balcony Solar System uses prima panels, a ample portable battery, smart plugs, and a compact microinverter to coming cheaper solar-generated powerfulness to different devices and appliances astir a location utilizing modular wall outlets. Using EcoFlow’s mobile app, users tin specify really overmuch powerfulness from nan prima panels is utilized to support devices for illustration washing machines and java machines running, aliases really overmuch is utilized to title up batteries for times erstwhile prima powerfulness procreation is reduced.

Details astir nan caller features being tested for nan PowerStream strategy — including added functionality, erstwhile they’ll beryllium disposable to each users, and really overmuch they’ll costs — haven’t been revealed by EcoFlow.