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Never owned a EV but find myself looking at Model Y's lately 
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Never owned a EV but find myself looking at Model Y's lately
It's the Reicht thing to do.
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Look at a few and then pick the third.
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And then take it round the Nurembergring*
* My mother-in-law actually calls it this
Well, it is a time trial…
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I've gone ahead and bought an i4 for the other half this weekend, so now I'm in the market for a home charger. I hear from friends and colleagues that they're all much of a muchness - is that accurate?
Am I missing anything if I go for an Ohme Home Pro? Also, is it feasible to have it installed *inside* a garage and run the cable under the door? I'd like to hide it away was much as possible.
Am I missing anything if I go for an Ohme Home Pro? Also, is it feasible to have it installed *inside* a garage and run the cable under the door? I'd like to hide it away was much as possible.
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Sure, you can run some time trials...And then take it round the Nurembergring*
* My mother-in-law actually calls it this
*edit* - god damn you @Penfold101
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yes.
doesn't have cable management, so may look slightly unsightly
as long as the door doesn't trap the cable
i think it's better to have it close to the car as it'll be more convenient
They way they seemingly insist on integrating means that on certain tariffs (like say OVO Charge Anytime) it doesn't integrate fully so all the smart features of the charger are effectively bypassed and it's just a very expensive plug.
They also (as I realised after purchase) use an inbuilt SIM for communication that is only paid up for three years. I think they say it'll cost no more than £2 per month after that but worth bearing in mind, there's nothing holding them to that.
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The garage door has a ~3cm gap under it on one side which I've been meaning to sort for years, but may now actually work to our benefit.
It'd be on a garage wall next to the door, so should be reachable for both driveway spaces with a 6m cable.
That's more concerning. I guess there's no 'one charger works for all suppliers' situation to give freedom to pick and choose in future?
In theory, all chargers will work with all suppliers on a very basic level - what you lose out on are more advanced features - for example, the Ohme Home Pro would vary charging rates as well as just 'charging or not charging' when it was directly integrated - so it might charge for seven hours at 2kW rather than two hours at 7kW if that's what the system deemed best - since it lost Ovo compatibility, it can only do 7kW or nothing.
The widest compatibility of the most features is likely to come from the biggest brands - myenergi Zappi, Hypervolt 3 etc.
Octopus integration is probably the main one to pay attention to, as it's the intelligent dynamic charging tariffs that need the smarts - stuff that's just basic 'cheap overnight' can often be done with relatively simple scheduling.
Ohme seems to have issues with VW group from my experience. I’m still problem solving but it isn’t working with octopus agile and price cap.
Last night delinked the car account and it still errored when the next sub 3p sessions started so only added 1% overnight rather than 10. This is was meant to be a work around. It’s like the car goes to sleep and doesn’t wake up
Odd as the Ohme was free with CUPRA yet on other peoples complaints they cupra are saying it’s not a certified cupra charger or some crap.
Last night delinked the car account and it still errored when the next sub 3p sessions started so only added 1% overnight rather than 10. This is was meant to be a work around. It’s like the car goes to sleep and doesn’t wake up
Odd as the Ohme was free with CUPRA yet on other peoples complaints they cupra are saying it’s not a certified cupra charger or some crap.
That’s not an Ohme issue, it’s a VW issue.
For what ever reason, VW cars end their charge sessions if the charging starts and stops too many times.
My neighbour has all kinds of issues charging their ID.3 from solar because of this. My Model Y and their other EVs charge fine on the same charger on solar.
For what ever reason, VW cars end their charge sessions if the charging starts and stops too many times.
My neighbour has all kinds of issues charging their ID.3 from solar because of this. My Model Y and their other EVs charge fine on the same charger on solar.
Seen a lot of complaints of that for VW cars regardless of specific charger on tariffs that start/stop charging schedules.
Yeah I think the cars have a fundamental issue after reading about it over the weekend. Its fine when I'm awake as i can just max charge it. like most the weekend was 0 or negative on Agile, so wasnt the end of the world it didnt work... this time. I do have a backup with work charging 14miles away but without that then I would find it a big issue.
Even when it works we know you cant make the most of the charging under the cap anyway as it will never take the full 30min period. Last night was several periods below 3p so was a good test and should have added 10%, but it only added 1.7kWh ('1%' on the app but 5% in the car) it failed.
Yes sorry, was just talking from experience. Was just a point to consider when people are picking chargers for features. Seems like all chargers and dumb if you plug into a VW.
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Never felt sick when I test drove my Leaf. For the first five minutes it scared the crap out of me and then it was grins all the way once I got used to it.