EV general discussion

Kenai said:
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.
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I simply limit my Model Y to charge at half amperage.
Keeps the charger on for longer and forces Octopus to give me a longer schedule. Forcing the whole house into 7p during more peak times lol
 
happy_2008 said:
Never owned a EV but find myself looking at Model Y's lately :eek:
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if you just want a reliable car to get you from A to B, you want the cheapest and most plentiful public charging, a good range along with a lot of practicality, its hard to argue against one.

As a car they are not imo the most exciting - tho the face lift at least looks a little more interesting... As already mentioned the biggest downside of a tesla is probably Elon Musk and the comments you may receive off some people for owning one (I dont agree with doing that for the record).

but whether its fair to tar the entire company with 1000s of probably decent people working there because of 1 plonker and his political / social views and for sticking his nose in countries politics where he has no business getting involved...... I guess that is for the individual to decide and would probably be for discussion in speakers corner.
 
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Diagro said:
I simply limit my Model Y to charge at half amperage.
Keeps the charger on for longer and forces Octopus to give me a longer schedule. Forcing the whole house into 7p during more peak times lol
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Enjoy it while it lasts, eventually I expect they'll start clamping down on this sort of behaviour and enforcing 'maximum' cheap hours or something so even if you slow roll your charger to try and get it cheap all day, it'll only let you have a total of a couple of extra cheap hours outside of the core times or something before it charges full rate.
 
tamzzy said:
It was an idiotic decision and tesla knows it. Minimalist is good but that was one step too far.
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Yeah I'm certain it was minimalist aesthetics they were going after and not just extreme cost cutting ;)

The talk of people getting car sick in an EV, I'm not surprised with how some people drive them. I'm sure we've all seen plenty of occurrences of the overtaking lane brake light flash as some one stabs the throttle as they pull into lane 2+ followed instantly by the brake lights flashing on as they come off the throttle sharply and activate regen. Bet that feels great as a passenger!
 
lordrobs said:
The talk of people getting car sick in an EV, I'm not surprised with how some people drive them. I'm sure we've all seen plenty of occurrences of the overtaking lane brake light flash as some one stabs the throttle as they pull into lane 2+ followed instantly by the brake lights flashing on as they come off the throttle sharply and activate regen. Bet that feels great as a passenger!
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Tbf there's some learning curve with driving a Tesla though IME, they've removed the option to reduce the amount of regen and one has to "use the accelerator" to control the acceleration/deceleration.
It's a marked difference from driving an ICE where I just used to take my foot off the accelerator and coast. I wouldn't mind if they brought back the option to reduce the amount of regen
 
tamzzy said:
Tbf there's some learning curve with driving a Tesla though IME, they've removed the option to reduce the amount of regen and one has to "use the accelerator" to control the acceleration/deceleration.
It's a marked difference from driving an ICE where I just used to take my foot off the accelerator and coast. I wouldn't mind if they brought back the option to reduce the amount of regen
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On my Ioniq 5 you can adjust regen using the paddles to do what you wanted. I normally use the intelligent auto which will coast if traffic alows it or brake depending on speed and distance to vehicle in front. I thought this is what one of the Tesla regen modes does?
 
Another storm, another power cut. We still don't have any power at home since Friday when storm Amy took a tree down across the powerlines outside the house. That's two power cuts in a few months now, ever since I bought an EV :cry:.

I never thought that the Vehicle To Load feature of the EV would have been so desperately needed. I've rigged it up to power the necessary equipment of the house - fridge, freezer, heating and broadband. The problem comes when I have to go to work and take the battery with me!
 
While there are EVs which have done the Ring better I think the one which impressed me the most is the Ioniq i5n.
 
Rroff said:
While there are EVs which have done the Ring better I think the one which impressed me the most is the Ioniq i5n.
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Was more that he rated the handling and found it fun really.

Yeh the i5n is a 4wd 640hp monster. It’s going to be fast.
 
tamzzy said:
It was an idiotic decision and tesla knows it. Minimalist is good but that was one step too far.

Updated Tesla Model 3 gets boosted 466-mile range and the indicator stalk we longed for | Auto Express

In a win for common sense Tesla has substituted buttons for a proper indicator stalk
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I wonder if they will bring out V2H for the older models...seems like the Juniper MYP has it from factory
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I actually don't mind not having the stalk, now. Don't get me wrong, it would've been easier had they just kept it but I don't think it was a deal breaker. I mean I bought it without one, lol.

Seems they've added in a front camera which I don't know how useful it would be as I've never had a car with a front camera before but the choice would've been nice.
 
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I know the lack of stalk would be a deal breaker for a lot, while i could probably make my peace with it eventually i know my wife would just refuse to drive the car so it'd have been a complete no because of that.

It's good they've brought it back as im sure it'll open the door again for quite a few people
 
Junglist said:
Seems they've added in a front camera which I don't know how useful it would be as I've never had a car with a front camera before but the choice would've been nice.
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I think the front camera is useful as the windscreen mounted camera can't see objects directly in front of the vehicle (the small objects blocked due to the bonnet line of sight)


sovietspybob said:
I know the lack of stalk would be a deal breaker for a lot,
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Tesla was probably targeting the bimmer drivers. They (I can't say we anymore as I no longer own one) don't use the indicators anyway :cry:
 
tamzzy said:
I think the front camera is useful as the windscreen mounted camera can't see objects directly in front of the vehicle (the small objects blocked due to the bonnet line of sight)



Tesla was probably targeting the bimmer drivers. They (I can't say we anymore as I no longer own one) don't use the indicators anyway :cry:
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I understand the benefit on paper but in practice I'm not sure how it would benefit me as a driver. I appreciate it's better for EAP/FSD but I have neither of those and in my 16 or so years of driving, I've never had a problem using my eyes to see in front of me and I haven't ran into anything (yet... touching all wooden objects around me)
 
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