When are you going fully electric?
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If it was a pre -auth charge at a petrol station it could have been £100+ for those two gallons
£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 quid to get me to 70% - mileage was separate number.
That’s only for pay at the pump ones. Not if you pay at till.
, abstinence is the key.New work charger isn’t bad
You have one of the few working BP Pulse chargers in the country.
32 of them. It’s the staff carpark but the biggest U.K. charging hub. 24 7kW. 4 50kw and 2 300/4x 150kw. I’m confident the public ones will get better.
32 of them. It’s the staff carpark but the biggest U.K. charging hub. 24 7kW. 4 50kw and 2 300/4x 150kw. I’m confident the public ones will get better.
Looks similar to our visitor car park chargers, only we don’t use BP Pulse
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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You also have the option of the Hypervolt as well, about 50% cheaper.
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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.
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.
The hypervolt system looks a lot nicer than a Zappi but isn’t the best on the software side if I am honest.
I own one, I’ve not had any problems but I know a lot of owners do be that WiFi connectivity, crashes, scheduling randomly not working or inaccurate energy usage data. I’m sure some of the issues are user error or unrealistic WiFi expectations but some certainly are not.
You also have to manually switch between solar mode and schedule which is nuts, lots of people have forgotten and awoken to an empty car. They promised they would fix that months ago but it keeps getting pushed down the to do list.
Like I said, I’ve not had any problems (I don’t have solar yet either) but you don’t have to look far on Facebook owners groups to find a lot of complaints about the software. I’ve also noticed a few complaints about grey plastic plug holster fading and white plastic units yellowing from UV. They don’t consider it to be a warranty issue.
I don’t own a Zappi but I hear far less complaints about them, you can just tell an engineer designed the outside and didn’t ask a more aesthetically minded person if it was ok for the front of the house first.
I own one, I’ve not had any problems but I know a lot of owners do be that WiFi connectivity, crashes, scheduling randomly not working or inaccurate energy usage data. I’m sure some of the issues are user error or unrealistic WiFi expectations but some certainly are not.
You also have to manually switch between solar mode and schedule which is nuts, lots of people have forgotten and awoken to an empty car. They promised they would fix that months ago but it keeps getting pushed down the to do list.
Like I said, I’ve not had any problems (I don’t have solar yet either) but you don’t have to look far on Facebook owners groups to find a lot of complaints about the software. I’ve also noticed a few complaints about grey plastic plug holster fading and white plastic units yellowing from UV. They don’t consider it to be a warranty issue.
I don’t own a Zappi but I hear far less complaints about them, you can just tell an engineer designed the outside and didn’t ask a more aesthetically minded person if it was ok for the front of the house first.