When are you going fully electric?

Greebo said:
Ordered a Taycan Cross S Turismo yesterday. Shame the lead time is 12-18 months even for a £105k car!
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Love the look of these, someone had left one in the long stay at Stanstead the other week which seemed rather brave/stupid.

Its getting near time to change my Seat but i don't think i can justify going electric this time unfortunately - as the price for a decent range doesn't add up :(
 
They have changed it so you don’t need the hub anymore if you can get a data cable from the Zappi back to the meter tails to run the CT clamp which reduces install costs a bit.
 
Yup missus made me hide my Zappi around the corner as she didn't want it on the front of the house, odd behavior if you ask me, but houses and what they look like has never interested me, but seeing as there's a spate of cable thefts for the copper, probably best it is not in plain sight.

I like the look of the Zappi though and I like its app, it has always worked, I also like the Final Fantasy tune it plays.
 
sandys said:
Yup missus made me hide my Zappi around the corner as she didn't want it on the front of the house, odd behavior if you ask me, but houses and what they look like has never interested me, but seeing as there's a spate of cable thefts for the copper, probably best it is not in plain sight.

I like the look of the Zappi though and I like its app, it has always worked, I also like the Final Fantasy tune it plays.
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It'll be at the side of the house hidden by a bush, so 'styling' doesn't really matter.
b0rn2sk8 said:
They have changed it so you don’t need the hub anymore if you can get a data cable from the Zappi back to the meter tails to run the CT clamp which reduces install costs a bit.
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It'll be located close to the main consumer unit, so that'd be handy.
 
sandys said:
Yup missus made me hide my Zappi around the corner as she didn't want it on the front of the house, odd behavior if you ask me, but houses and what they look like has never interested me, but seeing as there's a spate of cable thefts for the copper, probably best it is not in plain sight.

I like the look of the Zappi though and I like its app, it has always worked, I also like the Final Fantasy tune it plays.
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Hadn't thought about that. Could offset the cost of my charger by nipping around my estate :D
 
Osprey are the first to announce £1 per kWh rapid charging from 1st October. Not great news co side ring the government are planning to cap business energy prices.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
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.
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I've got a hypervolt as well, no issues. I see the complaints on Facebook, but as you say most are connectivity.
My mother also has a hypervolt, same good experience.

My neighbour (2 doors up) has a Zappi and it's a lot larger/uglier and ironically has issues scheduling his leaf, he's tried my hypervolt and its able to wake up and schedule charge just fine. Horses for courses.
 
Yup, most of them have had some issues in one form of another. Zappi went through a phase of its internal RCD's failing as well. I think Wallbox and ProjectEV had some security related issues and lets not talk about old Rolec units. :cry:

The purpose of my post was not to trash hypervolt, like I said, I've not had any problems but to highlight that the product isn't perfect and still has a lot of growing to do.
 
Yeh, that’s probably right although you’d think they have long term energy supply contracts in place so their cost is not actually tracking the wholesale rate in real time.

None of the other providers are anything close to that figure, many are still around the 50-60p mark. I think Tesla still have a site at around 25p in London.
 
To be fair there are others e.g. Ionity, fastned. Not so much in hubs but there are plenty of instavolt popping up, Shell recharge seems to be expanding slowly and tesla is opening up.

If anything in recent months I’ve used more public chargers than Tesla super chargers over the last few months as they have been more convenient.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
To be fair there are others e.g. Ionity, fastned. Not so much in hubs but there are plenty of instavolt popping up, Shell recharge seems to be expanding slowly and tesla is opening up.

If anything in recent months I’ve used more public chargers than Tesla super chargers over the last few months as they have been more convenient.
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Ionity have never been cheap and their current prices of 69p per kwh is only from 1st July to 31st October. I expect their post 31st October price to be a lot more than 69p per kWh.
 
what i find interesting is that if you are a charger company that has electric generation business, you are going to be making tonnes of money especially if you can sell the generated electricity at wholesale price. or you have solar panels on those charging stations.
 
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