When are you going fully electric?

b0rn2sk8 said:
It will be interesting to see what happens to the open V2 and V3 Tesla Superchargers come 24th November when the charge point regulations take effect. 27 or so will become non-compliant on the 24th as they don’t accept contactless. There is another 20 or so will become non-compliant in April next year.

The options seems to be:

1) Do nothing and play chicken with the regulator.

2) Return the chargers to being Tesla only.

The law seems pretty clear to me, if they don’t accept contactless by the 24th and they remain open to all, fines are due.

Neither outcome is desirable and not just for Tesla. It’s pretty damaging for the government also.

While the legislation was well intentioned, if they enforce, the sites will go back to Tesla only. If they don’t enforce, they’ll look weak.

In any case, having 47 large charging hubs yanked from full public use when you are trying to push the ICE ban forward to 2030 is not going to generate good headlines.
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The answer to this question is they will remain open. A Tesla employee from the U.K. charging team has made a statement on twitter to that effect.

Apparently they will be getting contactless ‘soon’, a not atypical statement for Tesla…

As much as this outrages a certain segment of Tesla owners, the chargers remaining open is far better for the greater good (IMO).
 
SexyGreyFox said:
A couple of years ago I had an horrific time getting home from a pub at 1.30 in the morning with all my band gear in a Ford B-Max and only lived 1.5 miles away.
It still remains one of my most traumatic moments having £1000s of gear in the car and I'm stuck.
My drummer on the other hand drove 40 miles to Stockport in his Tesla with zero problems :)
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Haha yeah, I flick snow mode on (Slip Start function) and off it goes.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
is there a way to see those time slots without plugging the EV in?
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bigmike20vt said:
no because you only get the extra slots generated by plugging in..... if you unplug the slots reset and you go back to 11:30pm-5:30am only
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This ^ , you still get the previous slots you used that day, but it defaults to 23:30-05:30 when you unplug. Just need to plug back in for new slots.

Its a good system to be on. In the last 30 days I used over 1100kWh at an average of 12.74p/kWh.
 
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Scramz said:
This ^ , you still get the previous slots you used that day, but it defaults to 23:30-05:30 when you unplug. Just need to plug back in for new slots.

Its a good system to be on. In the last 30 days I used over 1100kWh at an average of 12.74p/kWh.
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its a brilliant system,i am amazed it is still as good as it is!.

for instance saturday i had a gaming day and evening with friends, and used a lot of electricity. however both mine and my wifes car needed charging. from the moment my house battery went flat around 5:30pm i plugged in 1 car to charge, then when at 90% plugged in the other, and we had 7p electricity right through. this spanned 2 days.. No gaming of the system, it was a genuine need to charge both cars.

the following days on my account i had racked up almost £28 in electric use for each day (so over £55)............................ a day later it updated to give me my discounted figures and it dropped to under £8 for each day (about £15.60 in total).
 
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bigmike20vt said:
its a brilliant system,i am amazed it is still as good as it is!.

for instance saturday i had a gaming day and evening, and used a lot of electricity. however both mine and my wifes car needed charging. from the moment my house battery went flat i plugged in 1 car to charge, then when at 90% plugged in the other, and we had 7p electricity right through. this spanned 2 days.. No gaming of the system, it was a genuine need to charge both cars.

the following days on my account i had racked up almost £28 in electric use for each day (so over £55)............................ a day later it updated to give me my discounted figures and it dropped to under £8 for each day (about £15.60 in total).
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Yeah its amazing. I have noticed in the last week OI charge limit is now synced with my charge limit in my car which was annoying at first and we wasnt told about the update and it kept moving my car to 50% for no reason. Iv never set anything to 50% before! But it just copies to cars charge limit now which is handy.
 
dlockers said:
I am doing relative calcs to the Pug - the length is at the max on the Y and the ID7 is +21 again. That's 66cm longer than the Pug. Just too long to safely swing into places and park. The biggest concern I have with the Y is size, so yes ID7 is way too big. Width is in its favour though.

Edit: Model Y is only 2.6cm less width than a bladdy X5. The thing is a tank. An XC90 is thinner!
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I have a model Y, it felt wide when I first got it but than soon faded. Feels light as a feather to drive.
 
Last question for now about Octopus iGo.

First picture is from 15:24 with my slots.
I decided to unplug and plug back in at 17:38 so the second picture is my new slots.
The third picture is my wife logging into the APP with exactly the same Username and Password.

Why are they all different and why in my case does it show three things all leading into each other?
According to my APP we can put the washer on at 19:30 but on her APP at 20:30 but we're using the same login.
Her APP is showing it isn't 7p/Kw between 21:00 and 21:30.

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The schedule changes, regularly. The only time it will not change is if the car has already started charging within that specific slot.

If you refresh your app, it will show the same times.
 
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