When are you going fully electric?

Journey said:
Seems Gridserve are upping the number of Ultra-rapids at Exeter services with a further 12 due to be completed within 4-8 weeks. So that will be 24 Gridserve units and 16 Tesla Superchargers at Exeter.
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Nice, this is exactly what we need, now for something similar along the M54 or further into mid Wales and on the M6 further north (e.g. triple the number already at Tebay)
 
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chanjy said:
Oh but could still sign a deal in Europe to access superchargers which was what the poster said. But yeah looks like it's about port adoption too which is obviously not relevant in a European context
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Most super chargers in Europe are already open to any vehicle anyway. The U.K. is very much the exception there because of our **** infrastructure and strange regs about who pays for what.

Haggisman said:
Nice, this is exactly what we need, now for something similar along the M54 or further into mid Wales and on the M6 further north (e.g. triple the number already at Tebay)
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Tebay isn’t going to be gridserve site, but they are installing a bunch of rapids there where the old Tesla V2 chargers were and on the other side of the M6. They’ll be Westmorland branded.
 
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Here's an interesting snippet

With intelligent octopus and an ohme controlling the charge, preconditioning as part of the schedule is charged at the low rate, even outside the 11:30 to 5:30 window. So if you precondition from 7 to 8 am as part of your schedule, your home consumption is at 7.5p for that period
 
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My I Pace had stopped communicating with the Remote App.

However, over the weekend it started updating again so all seems to be well. We had lunch in a pub that has no phone signal and DAB radio stations don't work. I wondered whether the car being out of communication range for a bit may have brought things back to life.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Most super chargers in Europe are already open to any vehicle anyway. The U.K. is very much the exception there because of our **** infrastructure and strange regs about who pays for what.
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I'd not heard of this before, why would our infrastructure matter and what are the regs?
 
Em3bbs said:
I'd not heard of this before, why would our infrastructure matter and what are the regs?
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Our power grid is pretty old and set up for centralised generation and big industrial power users. When privatisation happened, the network operators were basically set up to just maintain what’s there already. They invest very little in actually upgrading the network for future use and very little of those costs are socialised.

It basically means that if you want to connect something to the grid, you have to pay the entire cost of any upgrades needed to reinforce the grid right the way back to national grid level. This can make a lot of rapid charger projects not commercially viable where they are actually needed.

Now factor in with renewables and things like rapid chargers, a lot more beefy connections are needed all over the place and the grid operators were not set up for it. The government is providing money to help buts its not enough and it’s very slow. They announced it a couple of years ago and they’ve only just started paying it. They are also now able to raise more cash from the standing charge to put in new national transmission lines where they are desperately needed to support offshore wind etc.

Other countries socialise the cost of upgrades needed further up the chain and only charge for the final connection.

The connection times for new renewables projects are now measured in decades in some areas. There is no lack of private investment money available on that side, it’s all bogged down with the network operators.
 
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Just had the house upgraded to 3 phase power by the DNO for..well, free as it transpired :D All in anticipation of the car you all never knew you didn't want, which should be on the drive Monday
 
I would t complain at free 3phase, get that 22kw charger installed.

There is one downside in that it genuinely makes things a fair bit more expensive if you actually want to use it.
 
faster 11kW into the car at home, you could exploit those Octopus Agile moments and then use for V2L - ioniq 6 ?
 
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