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New work charger isn’t bad
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£35 for 76 miles? that sounds awefully expensive; 40MPG car can cover that in 2 gallons thats just over 9litres of diesel even takign £2/L thats £18

using public chargers atm is about the same if not slightly more than driving ICE cars. 54kWH with 3miles/kWH efficiency on motorway thats 168miles thats about £33 wiht diesel cars or £30 with petrol.

for a long trip always home charge to the full and thats the only way of saving money over ICE atm
If it was a pre -auth charge at a petrol station it could have been £100+ for those two gallons
 
£35 for 76 miles? that sounds awefully expensive; 40MPG car can cover that in 2 gallons thats just over 9litres of diesel even takign £2/L thats £18

using public chargers atm is about the same if not slightly more than driving ICE cars. 54kWH with 3miles/kWH efficiency on motorway thats 168miles thats about £33 wiht diesel cars or £30 with petrol.

for a long trip always home charge to the full and thats the only way of saving money over ICE atm
£15.33 for 31.3kwh. Let’s go with 3mile/kwh. Likely it does more. That’s 94miles for fast charging which will be probably 10% of miles if you have a home charger.
 
£35 for 76 miles? that sounds awefully expensive; 40MPG car can cover that in 2 gallons thats just over 9litres of diesel even takign £2/L thats £18

using public chargers atm is about the same if not slightly more than driving ICE cars. 54kWH with 3miles/kWH efficiency on motorway thats 168miles thats about £33 wiht diesel cars or £30 with petrol.

for a long trip always home charge to the full and thats the only way of saving money over ICE atm
35 quid to get me to 70% - mileage was separate number.
 
I'm not going in the shop, eeew, tap, fill, go, if I enter the shop, it won't end well, no self-control, I'll blow a wad on Ginsters, I'm fat enough already :D, abstinence is the key.
 
It looks like we're close to going ahead with the Model Y. What's the best type of house charger to fit at the moment?

Ideally, I'd like to get one where I have the option to limit the current if I wanted to charge via the solar panels, or full speed if we're using Octopus Go.

Would be un-tethered and as future proofed as possible.
 
Would be un-tethered and as future proofed as possible.
Any particular reason you want untethered? It's a PITA to keep bringing out a cable that can be 5-8ms long just to plug your car in at home.

We have an Andersen A2 and it can be setup to work with solar, etc and has the advantage of allowing the cable to be tethered but also fully out of sight when not being used.
 
So I can also plug my Nissan into it as well, and it uses a different cable.

In reality, I'd likely just keep a spare cable semi-permanently attached to it for the Model Y.
 
Zappi if you don’t mind the way it looks. Outside of looks, it’s probably the best the market has to offer.

Nothing more future proof about untethered. Type 2 is here to stay for the forceable future. The problem is you have an old leaf so yeh you might have to go untethered for now but it doesn’t change that untethered is a pain in the but and if you leave the cable permanently attached it doesn’t look great.
 
It looks like we're close to going ahead with the Model Y. What's the best type of house charger to fit at the moment?

Ideally, I'd like to get one where I have the option to limit the current if I wanted to charge via the solar panels, or full speed if we're using Octopus Go.

Would be un-tethered and as future proofed as possible.
My Energi Zappi does the solar really well from what i understand (aslong as above 1.4 of solar output) then excess they do the myeddi to dump excess into the hot water tank/cylinder if you have that.

I think Hypervolt does aswell.
 
What does it need to be able to do that? I assume it would require an interface to the inverter?

Doubt it would work with my simple setup. I'd more likely just limit the current manually ad hoc. Or via a charge schedule. So, between 0:30 and 4:30 charge at full rate. Between 11:00 and 15:00 charge at 10a. Something like that.
 
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