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4800 Nm?! I hope you can get some REALLY good tyres. Or is it clever marketing speak where the wheel torque is substantially lower? I see the page also quotes 206…
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Mental but I'm not a person with unlimited money so I guess I don't think like them
Where are you buying 5mm cable ?
Where’s 1kwh per night come from ?
Mind boggles how you raise a point. Get feedback or help then start disagreeing with people.
Why are you worrying about charging your car and your neighbours all of sudden ? I guess the wireless connection issue has been solved so you finding a new reason why you can’t get an EV?
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Had my Ohme Pro charger installed yesterday. They also got my IHM working and gave me a Home mini which works really well sending meter readings by WiFi every 1 min. The intelligent charging is really good good much easier than the timer on the granny charger.
The install is a bit messy as it has to go round my front door but I might get a couple of slabs cut and hide away the cable at some point. But tbh I’m not that bothered it works as advertised and happy I finally have a decent charge speed.
The install is a bit messy as it has to go round my front door but I might get a couple of slabs cut and hide away the cable at some point. But tbh I’m not that bothered it works as advertised and happy I finally have a decent charge speed.
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206 is for the 80s car.
The 3E has electric motors in the wheels I think, so I guess they're quoting final 'post gearing' torque figures, which would be equally high on a regular car once you've multiplied through the gearing effect in gearbox/diff/wheels.
Probably been discussed, but also just had an email from Ovo and apparently Ohme will stop working from 15th July due to changes they've made. So for my dad, he'll be charging at whatever the normal rate is. 27p or something around there. Still cheaper than a tank of petrol but yeah, a bit frustrating. Going to see if he wants to change to Octopus or not.
That’s crap have they said why ?
I assume they are expecting based on their daily use to be charging for about 2 hours a day/night - with insufficient conductor size the power losses to heat can be quite substantial. A correct size 30M run will typically lose about 100 watt to heat an insufficient size as was talked about can potentially be in excess of 500 watt.
Just that Ovo have made improvements or changes to their Charge Anytime tarriff and Ohme have not done anything to be compatible with it. So no more intelligent charging. If you have a car from a very small specific list, then Ovo say they can still work but use the car settings and not Ohme to get around the issue. My dad's is not on the list either.
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This is why you go with them and stick with them ignore OVO British gas tomato energy and other gimmicks
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i really rate Octopus, I do not believe we would have many of the other companies offering such good tariffs as they do were it not for them competing with them.
However sometimes changes do happen which is out of the control of the energy supplier.
It happened a year or so back with Octopus as well where a few companies - including jaguar - blocked octopus from having access to the car to control smart charging so octopus were forced to remove owners of those cars from their service.
Not sure how likely it is but hopefully this is a game of chicken to force Ohme to pull their finger out and roll out an update their end as it does not benefit anyone if its something which Ohme could fix with a few hrs software development time.
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I suspect 4800 NM is the wheel torque. Tesla have played that game before too.
In that context it's nothing too crazy. An ID7 has over 4300 NM wheel torque in just the standard single motor version too.
back of a vape packet - single car ie 32A would be 250W/hr cable loss .... suppose you typically charged it half the night 4 hours ie 28kw(100miles) that would be circa 1kwhr/8p
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Your number was the 500W loss…
The frustrating thing for many is that Ovo actually offered a different product/gimmick with their 'charge anytime' package, in that it suited people who needed (or wanted) to charge during the day rather than at night.
as rroff said 64A(2 cars)*9volts is circa 500W - didn't everyone repeat his mental arithmetic
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Well you didn’t no? Why is your question a question as usual. Please do something, buy and EV, drive one, lease one, fit a charge. Talk
Is boring but I guess cheap
Is boring but I guess cheap
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Ah I see, so yes they’re making it sound much better than it actually is. I guess they’re nervous people don’t want to buy a £140k Renault EV?
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That’s per wheel though rather than spilt across an axle on the ID.7…