Recent content by googlepeakoil

Not got any optimisers. Only Tigo's which don't work like those - don't seem to help my shading issue! You can have panels just facing straight up and you'll get 50-60% of the ideal orientation. Yesterday with white clouds and no sun beaming through I was still doing 3kW off my 7.7kW - and bare...

The larger ones can fit nearly 6000 cars on 19 decks. Maybe it's cheaper to send it back as they probably go back nearly empty! Probably a few hundred tons of fuel is a good million quid? You're paying for the fuel both ways as the ship goes back nearly empty. Doubt anyone's got 6000 cars to...

They wouldn't turn off for me. I push the lever to off, they change back to speed "I" and wipe a dry screen every 5 seconds. This is cruise control going down a motorway at 70mph. They wipe because you're in cruise control and the car wants to be clearing the screen - morning sun is confusing...

I've got 7.8kW of panels. One of the best things I ever bought! I got 4kw of LG 14x285's originally on the FIT - which is now in year 7 and giving me about £1k a year now. I then got another inverter and 11x 325's 2 years ago. + a home battery I've since upgraded to 12.7kWh usable. My...

I feel a bit happier about the price I paid. Got a M3 SR+ as it was known then. One of the last USA builds from Dec2020 before they went to China. It was refreshed - had the black trim and heatpump which I wanted. Was 2nd hand at £39,100 (vs £43,990 after became ineligible for £3k discount)...

I've got gripes with SO much of the software too. Auto-wipers = joke! Put the car in cruise-control I am NOT allowed to turn off the wipers! WTF? There's no rain or dirt! Auto-highbeam = joke! Emergency braking / warning system. I've had the car beep at me for pedestrians on a narrow pavement...

Good point. Maybe they don't have so much "current-design" RHD stock to shift? I saw on the French Tesla website the model 3 RWD is now E41,990 while in the UK it's £42,990. Given the Euro was about 1.13 to the £ it means the French version is a lot cheaper. Wonder if the UK one will come down...

I did say "% range expected" - key word expected. When on a route, eg. "home" Tesla tells you what % battery it expects you to get home with. I didn't say I was 5% battery and 100 miles from home! But due to adverse weather it dropped from 7% to 3, to 0% in a matter of 10 miles and started...

I was driving down the motorway (freeway to americans) in a 50mph section because there was roadworks in the central reservation where they had their own lane. The roadworks had their OWN speed limit sign that said 10. Guess what the ****** car saw and thought the speed limit was - you guessed...

It's the fact it's "auto-wipers" for basic cruise-control and the car ignores you when you turn them-off, and turns them back on!! So, even when I'm not in "auto-pilot" and I'm in the UK and have not bought "self-driving". And Elon says if somebody crashed - but you're supposed to be able to...

Glad someone understands! Yeah driving in the dark, rain at 1am, it wasn't safe to be playing with a satnav to work out where it was trying to send me - how far off the motorway (which charger destination), if it was 1 mile or 10 miles off the route. Also illegal to be programming any satnav...

You didn't read the original post. The bit where I was 100 miles from home, relying on the navigation to get home because I didn't know the route! It was dark, 1am. It was raining. I'm on a motorway - where it's illegal in the UK to stop unless broken-down, and you're not supposed to operate a...

Give the user the option is all I'm saying. A navigation popup to confirm re-routing. Don't tell them you're being redirected somewhere by some HAL like computer making a decision you don't want. As I said, dark, in the car on my own, unable to stop on a motorway, can't be messing with the map...

In the UK it's illegal to stop on the motorway. So this wasn't an option. The phone I use I don't use for navigation - so turning on "location", and going into maps and entering a destination is not something that can be done. Besides - I want the big Tesla screen to be giving me directions...

The car also used to tell you "round trip % expected" but they removed that. The list of directions was quite long - I didn't try and scroll to the end to see it - but it wasn't obvious if it was there.