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I've charged mine to 100% a few times already, but only when I'm going to use it straight after/a few hours after charging. I've read the main no-no is leaving them for a long time at 100 % charged.
 
Even the NMC ones need charging to 100% and leaving connected for a while to balance every now and again afaik
 
Buffman said:
Trying to decide if I want a "decorative" untethered EV charger or a less nice looking tethered one. It's between these 3 I think ;


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I was looking at Andersen/Simpson but decided I wanted to make sure I could take advantage of the tarrifs with intelligent charging. No idea if it changed but Andersen was a no go, Simpson was going into administration at the time so I ruled that out.

After discussions with the installer I ended up with an Ohme ePod. I charge about once a week so nice to have the cable tidy, out the way in the garage when not in use. It's been OK so far, no real issues and the mobile app is really easy to use. Currently don't regret my decision.
 
esmozz said:
As in on the Ohme app. I daresay it's possible to start an automatic charge to a set amount upon plugin. But clicking a button in the app is not particularly onerous.

I believe your referring to the capability between your car and your charger. Some chargers can talk to the cars from some manufacturers (to communicate the amount of charge needed) but not others. My car doesn't, so I tell it to charge, say 25%. The onus is on the manufacturer to provide the software to do this so I guess BYD will get round to it at some point.

I'd say it would be going a bit far to say pick a car based on the capability between the car and the charger.
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BYD is in the list in the OHME app, I just checked so surely the charger should be able to read the SOC on plug in? I know that app is flakey at times and I have had to re-register my Leaf several times for it to read the SOC. When it all works correctly I plug the charger in, it reads the SOC and schedules the charge times inline with my cheap rate overnight and I don't have to tap charge or anything. Surely this can be done with your BYD? I do have to approve the plug in in the app but that's all I normally need to do unless it throws a hissy fit which it seems to do after every couple of updates.
 
pastymuncher said:
BYD is in the list in the OHME app, I just checked so surely the charger should be able to read the SOC on plug in? I know that app is flakey at times and I have had to re-register my Leaf several times for it to read the SOC. When it all works correctly I plug the charger in, it reads the SOC and schedules the charge times inline with my cheap rate overnight and I don't have to tap charge or anything. Surely this can be done with your BYD? I do have to approve the plug in in the app but that's all I normally need to do unless it throws a hissy fit which it seems to do after every couple of updates.
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It's on the list and shows as a BYD Seal in my app but it states at some point during the setup it can't communicate with the car due to the car software not being compatible or providing the correct functionality or something (I can't remember exactly where I read it). The software generally on the Seal is not particularly slick so I guess it's something that will come with time.

The app does schedule with the Octopus Intelligent Go tariff so I notice it charging at various times during the day as well as the cheap overnight rate, so I'm happy with that bit.

Or I'm doing something wrong - I've only had the car a week and it's my first EV so I'm still figuring it out.
 
Homer-Simpson said:
I was looking at Andersen/Simpson but decided I wanted to make sure I could take advantage of the tarrifs with intelligent charging. No idea if it changed but Andersen was a no go, Simpson was going into administration at the time so I ruled that out.

After discussions with the installer I ended up with an Ohme ePod. I charge about once a week so nice to have the cable tidy, out the way in the garage when not in use. It's been OK so far, no real issues and the mobile app is really easy to use. Currently don't regret my decision.
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Thanks I've gone for hypervault and getting a 10m tethered lead for it as driveway quite long.
 
Demon said:
no1 nows
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U jokin me, mon.
Rly me wanty mobile whip.

Back to Earth...
It's probably, other than the Hyaundai 5N, the only EV that interests me. A Tesla with better looks.

Good to see Renault 5 and a few other brands bringing prices down though.
 
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So the electrician agreed that the cable running to our garage isn't up to the job and I've asked him to replace the cu in the garage for a more suitable one and place a commando socket on the garage outer wall to charge at 16A.
Plan for the future would be to run a cable directly from the meter box, as the main cu is also unsuitable, along the outside wall of the house to the rear then lift some lighter paving and trench the new cable in. That's a long way off though as we've more immediate things to do to the house.
Thanks all for your contributions.
 
Got a couple of questions regarding a Tesla model 3 for the hive mind here.

Has anyone had a tow bar fitted to one?

Also it seems the suspension is a real weak point on these and the Y, what parts actually go on them is it just like 1 particularly arm or bush or does everything fail together? Also what kind of prices are the parts, can you get them from any motor factors now?

Ive been wanting an EV for ages and had thought i'd get an Ioniq 38kwh but only recently found out you can't tow with it and as i've got miniature trains and stationary engines i really need a means of moving them around. I used to have access to a works van for that stuff but sadly that's gone now, EV vans seem very expensive still so as probably 98% of the time it's just me driving the car to work and school pickup etc it might be better to just get a little trailer for when i do need to move stuff but that really limits choice of affordable EV's.

I was really wanting to spend around the 10k mark on an Ioniq but then i've seen the early model 3's have come down a lot, if i go higher milage i could get one around the 12k mark by the looks of it. Milage in itself doesn't worry me but i want to know what i'd be getting into.

My mate for instance has a Nissan NV200 40kwh van with over 120k on the clock, i had a go in that the other week and it felt really good to drive still.
 
Jono8 said:
I guess we are just going to have the market flooded with cheap Chinese EVs, just like with all other consumer electronics :p
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Definitely going to happen, and since we all have less money than morals the public will embrace it. If that SU7 was available now I'd be considering one.

According to my tinfoil wearing friend, once saturation has been achieved China will flick a switch and all their EV will turn on MDK mode :cry:.
 
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