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I did a similar journey today, NW to Bicester. On the way down I noticed that Warwick Southbound always had spare capacity when I looked, but not much. As it’s V2 I would have likely have charged slowly as it would have likely split the power with the bay next to me. I’ve stopped at Warwick...

The old chargers had signs saying “Electric vehicle recharging point only” and “no parking at any time”. I can’t see any of these in the picture at the new location. Without it, some people may think the large spaces are ideally suited to large SUVs and 4x4’s.

About 4 weeks ago, Chargeplace Scotland and the old Greater Manchester network, which changed to Be.EV, have signed an agreement so that their chargers can be accessed from each other’s app and RFID cards. It looks like it’s been sorted and hence some of the Be.EV chargers appearing on CPS. The...

I think it may only be a footbridge. There was a footbridge that was demolished a couple of years ago. They generally aren’t keen on letting you swap sides on motorway services even to charge, although there are exceptions such as Tebay.

Looks like some in Austria & Spain have been opened up a well.

The cutoff date is the 30th June as per Regulations: electric vehicle smart charge points

I had a bulge on one of my front Michelins recently. I got it replaced on my drive the next working day and didn’t use it until it had been replaced. They had done 8000 miles so I replaced both front ones rather than just the dodgy one.

When I go to Norwich for the football, we find that parking and getting away is a nightmare as a lot of traffic is heading west so it makes sense to head east, despite us travelling to/from the North West. We avoid the obvious route in/out and go to where the Gridserve site is and park just off...

Local news are slightly out, its opening Thursday 21st. Evmonkey has been there every week for the last year with a report. His final build report shows the electronic sign outside advertising opening on Thursday. Evmonkey Video

I leant mine to a friend in his ID.4 when he was staying in a cottage as a backup but neither of us have ever used it. The ID.4 didn’t come with one. I also bought a weatherproof extension lead with RCD protection and a weather proof box to put the plugs in. When I first got an EV, if it hadn’t...

Local news are reporting that the Norwich Gridserve Electric Forecourt, which has some Tesla SuperChargers, has an opening date of 22nd April. Opening Date

The SuperChargers being referred to here are in hotels which generally don’t charge for parking whilst you are charging. The parking companies working for the hotels have cameras recording who comes in and out of the car park and if you are charging or visiting the hotel for any reason they...

It may not be back 100% as they have sent another update out: Dear Customer, Following the cloud downtime yesterday, some customers may still experience some performance issues today. We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused and we are working hard at restoring the best service...

I’ve logged a ticket rather than call them up. I suspect that the issue is at Andersen’s end so I don’t really want to reset my box just yet until they’ve escalated the issue internally, or at least that‘s what I’d hope they would do with the numbers of people who look to be affected. It...

I had a couple alerts in the middle of the night on my watch to say it’s offline. I’ve just checked and it’s also lost it’s signal and is showing lost connection from my phone. I have a WiFi mesh and one of the units is near the front window with line of sight to both the car and the Andersen...

The Gridserve forecourts take a while to build with the Norwich one due to be finished soon and a load more planned but no dates apart from one at a London airport. A lot of the electric highway replacements at motorway services are still pretty slow due to power supply constraints and don’t...

They are appearing in the app on my phone and showing 15/18 available.

I think the services up there are classed as a rest area and I believe Moto want to merge it with a truck stop to form a full motorway service area and increase EV charging capacity but there are lots of politics going on in that neck of the woods as somebody else wants to build a brand new...

We recently had a company phone which had been lost or stolen turn up on eBay. We found out about it when the person who had bought it phoned up to get it unlocked as the software on it locks it and displays a message.

I use a Brodit mount behind the steering wheel. It only works for me in landscape mode. You buy a holder for your phone and then a mount for the car and attach them together. There is another mount other than the one I’ve got and they do them in both RHD & LHD. They aren’t cheap, but I’ve used...

Mine updated earlier to 4.5.5 from 4.5.3. I also had the iPhone app updated earlier in the week as well. For the first time in a while, the Tesla app actually notified me that I had an update. I normally find out through a Teslafi email.

Mine disabled the online routing other day. It did let me know it’s off though and gave me the option of going straight to the right part of the menu to enable it again.

My inventory purchase was towards the end of the quarter 17 months ago and I’m pretty sure that I had to collect it before the end of the quarter, although I had an incentive as I had a discount on the old M3P prices. I’ve not come across discounts on inventory stock for a while now.

You have to be careful with the non-Tesla chargers. A lot of them are speed rated against 800v cars and at the moment most cars are 400v cars, like Teslas, which don’t benefit from the highest advertised rates. Tesla Superchargers are rated against 400v Teslas so unless you are power sharing on...

I’ve also heard of plans for a new shopping centre at Scotch Corner with plans for 2000 parking spaces with 150 charging points. If you are heading north towards Scotch Corner it’s just before the hotel with the Tesla Superchargers on the West of the A1/M1. It might make the area a touch busy...

I’ve got a key card in my small footprint wallet which I carry as a backup and I’ve also got a ring with a Tesla NFC chip in it as well which I sometimes wear. I’ve only used it once when I left my phone in my desk at work and was nipping out for lunch and got to the car and realised I had no...

That’s the same for me. I get an email from Teslafi but nothing on the app. The app notifies me about charging and warming the cabin though.

Over on another forum, it looks like Ferrybridge is progressing with pictures of some of the 12 bases being installed for the Tesla Superchargers. It was posted by a Zoe driver looking for some new Gridserve chargers, which don’t look to have started yet. To be fair to Gridserve, with the...

Mine was waiting for me when I got up earlier and I installed it. I was on 30.11 before.

Last time that I was there before Christmas, although the stalls looked complete, there was a big fenced off hole close to the actual Trafford Centre where they had run a trench and cabling and it looked like they were waiting for power as the cables were unconnected in the hole. The trench was...

The Tesla website is now showing a number of locations open to non-Tesla’s in France a well as Norway this week.

I don’t have the lane changing feature, but have used it on a trial. I recently came back from London on a Sunday night and I remember thinking how useful it would have been. If I were doing regular motorway miles, then I think I’d get it. As this car is a lease and I did no motorway miles in...

I agree with most of the changes but I’d like to have seen regulation, including helmets, on the use of electric bikes and scooters. Its not right that you can jump on a hired electric scooter but not use your own. New regulation is required to keep up with technology to safeguard these users...

I was originally quoted a price for an A2 similar to Andersen from a local installer, and I decided to use the local installer. I had long running issues with the local DNO who insisted I fit a device to protect the supply and only use it at night until they could work out if I needed a new...

I’ve had 3 Alfa Romeos, but that’s the only brand I’ve bought more than once as, like yourself, I look for different things depending on circumstances at the time. I’m sure BMW will sell loads of the new ones, but at least one of their loyal customers thinks they are over priced and he's looked...

One of my friends is a die hard BMW driver although I wouldn’t call him a car enthusiast and he was forced into an EV as a company car so has an ID.4 at present and he has a few months of EV driving and a few round trips of over 400 miles under his belt. He’s been looking at the new BMW EVs as...

There‘s a lot of speculation about Welcome Break’s strategy for petrol stations & EV charging. They look to be setting up their own branding for charging and petrol stations. The WB services have also been slow to get the old Ecotricity chargers replaced with newer Gridserve ones and at South...

Same for me, it’s just installing although it looks like 2021.44.30.5 is also out but only in the USA

I had the what looks like he same issue before Christmas. I booked a mobile service appointment. He first tried a full reboot by disconnecting the battery. He then tried to check the connection, but as he was taking it off, he broke it. He did have a spare ready, but it had a black trim but...

It was in the navigation screen where it was on v 10.

I used to do the same as you, just turning the air con on, but I’d sometimes get the blue snowflake indicating that the battery was cold even though the interior was a balmy 22. I think you need to use the scheduled departure to warm the battery instead of using the air con. It’s also location...

I did a trip on V11 on Monday. It initially tried to send me to Scotch Corner with the destination set to where I was going in Newcastle. I noticed the pre-conditioning come on occasionally. It was also a lot colder on Monday as well. I ignored it and put in Washington SC as the destination and...

I set the scheduled departure for 7:30 in the morning. I also usually have the air con on all the time when I’m in it. It appears to kick into life at least 15 minutes before though as I get a message from the app about 7:15 saying the cabin is at the required temperature so it appears to warm...

Both my friend and I used API Electrical with no issues and they have a good choice of chargers. They are in Greater Manchester but also cover Lancashire.

One of the places we regularly use with the ID.4 is an Instavolt site near Banbury just off the M40, which has 8 fast chargers and an upgrade planned to 20 or 24. Mind you, at 45p it’s relatively cheap compared to the 69p Ionity ones we’ve used at Milton Keynes bus station. At the moment, the...

I‘ve used Burtonwood (on the M62, Stretton is the one just off the M56) on a number of occasions when I had referral miles and never seen what you saw. It looks like there was a fault. Mind you, the Ecotricity chargers there don’t look like they’ve been working for years. On Monday we were...

Dark Mode is a feature that has been introduced into devices with screens and also in some applications over recent years which can help some people with certain eye conditions. We’ve been making upgrades at work for one of our users who requires it. It will look very similar to the old night...

Tesla had night mode used at night which could also be used all the time, but it’s not necessarily the same as Dark Mode. Dark mode is becoming increasingly common in phones, operating systems and screen based applications to assist people with certain accessibility requirements. People with...

On previous cars, they recommended in the manual not to have large differences between climate zones as they end up working harder and against each other where the two zones merge.

I ordered a card for a trip in the summer just before the supplier change. Unfortunately it didn’t arrive arrive in time and I found that the app worked less than half the time so I’d recommend a card. The card eventually turned up but didn’t get transferred to the new supplier. I did manage...