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Update on Heathrow: I've just swung by again and all the charging points are open, although didn't get more than 160kW on the V3. I guess the feedback got to the right person. You have to take a ticket to get in, but the barrier is up on the exit lane at the moment so no time limit.

For info - the Superchargers at Heathrow T5 are mostly out of action. All the 250kW versions are shut down and being used by the hotel for customer parking. They've been removed from the in-car map so this is likely a permanent change. Many vehicles queueing today followed by problems as they...

The trip computer now takes temperature into account. It's possible that its map of the UK is quite granular and at that point in your journey the temperature increases noticeably in its model, which gives a greater predicted range from that point.

This just hides the message...

I've got my order in for the SolarEdge stuff, but from an electrical point of view it's going in with wiring in place for a battery, but that will have to come later.

I would expect it to run for the 12 months free that you get with a normal purchase (as was described on the website). Don't mind paying after that point and was expecting to. I guess it comes down to the nitty-gritty of the lease agreement, but if it's salary sacrifice then the lease company...

I've just been offered it on my M3 LR. Not installed yet as I can't be bothered with the 25 minute wait.

Ferrybridge, or you could dive into the farm shop in Harrogate for lunch (approx 10 mins from the A1(M).

The CT clamp might be clipped the wrong way round on the feed from your solar panels.

My Model 3 LR has a very specific whine from the front motor at 60mph. It hasn't fallen apart yet.

"PASSENGERS WILL KINDLY REFRAIN FROM CHANGING THE TEMPERATURE ON THEIR SIDE OF THE CAR!" *slaps hand away from screen* Sounds like a fun marriage.

If the wrong-sided cars are evenly spaced then that knocks every other bay out of commission to Tesla drivers, but ironically leaves it available to another non-Tesla vehicle.

Depending the layout, if they open the UK superchargers to other brands that means that on a full bank of 12 V3, it's possible for only 6 cars maximum to charge if they are using the wrong side. With funky layouts that can drop to a maximum of 4 or 5 cars. I doubt Tesla is going to be asking...

I replaced a PodPoint one with a Tesla Gen 3 from eBay, mainly because the Podpoint charger looked bloody awful on the side of the house. The house already had a type B RCD and PEN fault detection installed so it was a 15 minute job. I like having the button and I just use the scheduling in the...

Nothing a bit of casual vandalism won't fix. Probably worth parking outside the center and then walking in to avoid incriminating CCTV.

Doubt it, a lot of people who paid for EAP for exactly this reason will be clamoring for a refund.

I was offered this yesterday but it had disappeared when I went to download and install today, so your problem with the sensors might be more widespread.

You don't need binocular vision to infer depth, it's just one of the ways to do it. Perfectly acceptable to use relative size and position / occlusion to do the same thing and that's how many humans work.

CC2 are less than £600 for four, fitted. Yeah, it's a lot of money but it's 1% of the price of the car and can be budgeted for at £25/month over two years, which is what I do for tyres. Speed should be appropriate to the conditions and the problem you face is that with a mixture of tyres you...

Maybe don't buy a £60,000 car if you can't afford to run it safely? It's not just you that's affected, it's the person in the opposite lane that encounters the back of your car heading towards them at 60mph after you've spun out on a cold, wet, bend.

If the front camera is blinded the TACC (or Autopilot) aborts with a continuous warning and big red hands on steering wheel picture. Might be that?

They aren't normal RGB sensors which is why the colours look a little odd.

Is it all that surprising that BP Pulse lost money? Their sole working charger probably had an ICE car parked in front of it.

I think EAP assumes that all motorways work like US freeways, where the inside lane becomes the sliproad. Mine occasionally indicates left and wobbles sometimes when in this situation, exacerbated if there's an arrow painted on the road. It's never actually changed lane or left the motorway...

What's the price per kWh at Harrogate?

Cheaper to use Ionity soon…

I think if you have a look at the inside of a wall charger you'd be surprised. They're just a couple of contactors and not particularly chunky ones at that. Most of them are internet connected and nearly all have a Raspberry Pi inside. This is arguably massive overkill for a charger and is...

Added advantage at Rugby is that if the Superchargers are busy, you can just hop onto a Gridserve charger. Doesn't make you friends, admittedly, but since they're all going to get to play on Tesla chargers in the near future, who cares?

Am I missing something here or is this a charging station where you can leave with your battery emptier than when you arrived? (Personal view here is that someone in the ordering process is extremely ignorant and has been scammed, or money of the brown-paper-envelope kind has exchanged hands...

I don't think any of the Autopilot code has changed in a couple of years since the USA went vision-only, so phantom braking with software updates is just coincidence.

Yes. 200kW briefly at Rugby on a 2021 Model 3 LR with 6000 miles on Monday for me (rocked up with 18%).

Anyone with AP knows that it can have a tendency to get upset when passing HGVs that are straying too close or slightly over their lane lines while the driver takes a dump or cooks breakfast or something, and the violent phantom-braking and aborts when changing lane towards and HGV with EAP...

Just as a warning to anyone planning to charge at Newport Pagnell over the next few days - don't. It's being used as a temporary car park by the construction crews working on the M1 smart motorway upgrade. There are 10 chargers but they're blocking at least 6, so everyone is squashed onto...

I think that just clears the message.

You need two CTs. One of them configured on the Zappi as "GRID", and this will protect your 100A fuse. The other needs to be configured as "MONITOR" and placed around the feed to your garage and added to a group capped at 32A. Might be worth checking that you definitely have a 100A fuse on your...

Has anyone gone down the E.ON road for solar and battery? Seems to be very little actual information about things on their website.

Interestingly Ferrybridge looks very much designed to allow non-Teslas with the charge port in stupid locations easy access to charge.

Been looking at the Solaredge stuff but an element that concerns me is that they restrict system access to their approved installers. What happens if they go bust - do you lose control / status / configuration of your panels?

I think it's extremely unlikely that any cars in the UK are vision-only.

Not bothered. Partly because it's a Grade 2 listed house with the electricity pipe running under equally listed cobbles out the front and I couldn't face the fight with the council for planning permission, but mostly because I'm moving home in a few months anyway.

I'm at the very end of the ancient piece of leaky pipe that brings electricity in to my street and looped off my neighbour's supply, so the voltage is often down at about 210V at the car and about 215V at the meter head when drawing a full 32A. Tesla AC chargers are pretty ambivalent about...

A long trip usually means I've got my wallet with me, which has a keycard in it. Otherwise it's phone only. If I get stranded then hopefully someone can bring the spare key out. Or I could use the NFC reader with my Android phone if it's a bluetooth problem. Or I can ring Tesla and get them to...

Tusker can't object too much about EAP as my Model 3 is with them and has it.

What's wrong with fining people for speeding and driving uninsured?

I just have a bright green cable. Not pitch dark where I live so that's enough to not trip over it at night.

Not actually charging though, surely?

The thing is, those bongs / chimes / interventions are the direct result of your driving leading a completely impartial observer to say "that's dangerous", and intervene. The warnings are likely triggering because you drive too close to the vehicle in front, or pass pedestrians too fast and...

You forgot "lycra lout". Are you absolutely sure that you should be driving with such poor knowledge of road rules, especially after admitting that you disable all the safety features on your car?

If it's the lane you're talking about, cyclists absolutely do not have priority at junctions. Instead the main road has priority and they hit Toucan crossings, which use radar to wait until the main road is empty or a two-minute time-out elapses, when they finally change. Why would you use...

Sure. But only if drivers get fined for using minor roads if a motorway or A-road is available, even if this doubles or triples the journey time. They must also stop and give way at every junction, and no investment will be made to repair damage or grit them in cold weather. Motorways will also...