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I suspect highly dependant on the service centre. I made a request on the 5th of April and had a date by 7th April. I think the earliest appointment was a week or so later but I ended up picking a later date that was more convenient for me because it wasn't anything urgent. I think i've always...

Yet another option is octopus cosy: you get 2 off peak periods (4-7am, 1-4pm). The off peak amount is ~17p at the moment, the majority of the day is a bit cheaper than IO, but 4-7pm is a lot more expensive. More expensive just for the car, but on most winter days all the heat pump activity was...

If it’s like the power up sessions, those vary quite a bit. There have been quite a few middle of the day ones (say 11-2pm) also but morning (9am-12am), late afternoon/early evening (5pm-8pm) or evening (8pm-11pm)

The guidance says this applies to all public rapid chargepoints - there's a long list of things that don't count as public (eg workplace chargers, chargers for use only of residents of a block of flats etc.), but also: Which certainly sounds like you could continue to offer a Tesla-only...

For what it's worth, there has been a lot of it the past few days in my area thursday: 9am-12pm saturday: 1pm-4:30pm sunday: 7pm-11pm monday: 4am-9am tomorrow: 9pm-11:30pm

This old document https://assets.elexon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/28163904/08_SVG166_03A_Openreach.pdf (from 2014, so presumably describes the kit that is being repurposed) seems to say that cabinets used to have 100A supplies ( because that’s just what power companies did), but that...

I wouldn't hold your breath - I'm missing some power up credits from last month - by the time they'd sent the email saying that they didn't have the meter data it was already visible on the octopus home page. They now claim it must have been missing when the calculations were done & are refusing...

Newmarket / studland retail park superchargers as of today. Looks much the same as the photo from a few weeks ago.

It is (at least it was as of a few weeks ago). It's not (just) ip addresses etc, i have the same issue on my garmin running watch (which only downloads podcasts using home wifi) - plays any spotify podcast other than the bbc hosted ones

All 16 of the new tombstones are in are rugby, as are the 4 new cabinets (next to the original 3

That is great news! bit of a pain travelling to a service centre from around cambridge, with milton keys, chelmsford, norwich all about 1h20-1h30 away in different directions!

And also: - Bar Hill, on the A14 near cambridge too (although the marker is the wrong side of cambridge for Bar hill - the marker is near all the car dealerships by the aiport are) - Stansted (there is already a SC at the services there but only 4 bays so often full) - Godstone (round the bottom...

I find I occasionally lose 3-4% like that, and other times I will randomly gain 3-4%. I think it's all down to measuring battery status being something of a guessing game.

I have one of these EV granny charger 13A weatherproof extension lead with the inline RCD. Mine is a 10m but that’s just down to what you need

That's exactly what i've done for that past few years for precisely that type of scenario (the extension lead I have is from Tough Leads )

For what it's worth I had what looked like similar damage. I was initially quoted £1000 but it ended up being £2000 because it turned out that the bracket the bumper attaches to had also been damaged - maybe they're just covering their arses

Turning off background app refresh for the Tesla app (but otherwise leaving bluetooth, data etc. enabled). seems to have helped for me - after doing that I've had 4 wakeups in the past 24 hours (one of which was triggered by me opening a door, and another was the car downloading an update) -...

Seeing the same thing here, except that I do get longish periods of sleep (5-6hours) at night & only see the constant wake/sleep cycle during the day (approx 7am-7pm). Trying a day with all comms on the phone switched off to see what happens

It's only been a few days, but 2022.24.6 seems to have fixed it by me (fingers crossed)

First I’ve heard & great news - There’s a bit of a hole there which none of the recent SCs have helped with much.

The DNO have a duty to respond to such requests within 11 weeks - when I did this a few years ago it was a bit under, but yeah it's not quick.

I thought the 2nd (and 3rd etc.) powerwalls were cheaper because you use the same backup gateway and the installation is simpler? (just connect the new powerwall to the gateway as opposed to all the work to do with wiring in the gateway to your home)

They've even removed some actual sites - eg the current banbury. Also finally given up on fleet southbound?

Zapmap does i think have this (see at ~ 0:25) but it's a premium feature

I’ve have a service centre visit for something else booked for a few weeks & added this on last weekend to ask them to look at at the same time. I had a request from Tesla for some times/dates when this had occurred and then a phone call from Tesla later on the Monday saying that it was a...

Maybe not that helpful, but a model 3 can only draw 32A from a single phase charger - you need three phase to get to 48A (I think sometimes when it doesn’t know what it’s plugged into it might show you that as the upper limit for what it could draw if plugged into something suitable). It...

That is interesting - i've had similar experiences at service centres but had assumed it was geofenced - hard to abuse if you have to drive the car to the service centre of your own free will. If you can unlock your car with the mobile app, then so can tesla - your app sends a request to their...

The seasonal difference is likely due to battery chemistry being impacted by temperature - if it's cold enough it may need to heat the battery to allow optimal charging ( Powerwall Modes | Tesla Support ). Where the tariff matters is that if you were in complete control, you choose to only...

My meter hasn't sent export readings for several months but has been sending import readings just fine. I flagged them with this end of Feb, they replied a fortnight later to say that > I have initiated a 'health check' on your smart meter - this will either resolve the issue itself, or it...

Greentheonly has pictures of the two side by side (). On top of different connectors etc, the new and one is quite a bit thicker

Have a heatpump, can confirm - it's great. It's also great when it's very sunny - there's only so much you store in the car if you don't do that many miles (or you're not at home during the working day) etc. Octopus Go can't be combined with the octopus outgoing tariffs (which pays 7.5p/kWh)...

They've opened a few of the hubs recently - swansea (6x), exeter (12x), burton in kendal (6x) - all 350kw chargers. The norwich one (one of the electric forecourt ones) is pretty close too, as are some of the hubs.

I think you underestimate the impact of the better rate for exports to grid, ie12 p in your case. If you're on octopus go you can't be on octopus outgoing (which pays 7.5p), so I think you end up on their default export tariff, which is 4.1p if I am reading correctly. Even with a powerwall to...

You can configure how much power to use for charging your car in the case of an outage. I assume this wouldn’t work if you had a non Tesla & a 3rd party charger. Other than that car charging load isn’t treated differently to any other electrical load in the house. It mostly doesn’t discharge...

Depending on your usage profile, you may find the tesla energy plan (available via octopus) interesting. You give up control of your powerwall, but in exchange you pay the same amount for imports as for exports. The exact price varies per region, but it's 10-12p/kWh at the moment. As far as...

I think it's pretty variable depending on what else is on the site, how much parking there is generally, where the supercharger bays are etc. For example at rugby there's loads of space and the EV charges are at the far end of the carpark from the services building - there's no incentive to park...

Well ofgem says the average house uses 12000 kWh a year of gas. Some of that is hot water , so maybe roughly 10000 kWh of gas used on heating. I don't know what the average house size is, but that's probably at least 3-4x as much as that passive house requirement.

Originally there were two different price bands, one with a Tesla Ev, one without but they got rid of that when they changed the pricing in last april

It is basically like net metering yes (minus a small amount of loss in the charge/discharge process). You still get storm watch/backup capabilities. Although I don’t benefit financially from shifting grid imports away from peak periods, those are often times of higher co2 impact of power...

It is yes. Any unit imported, for whatever reason, is 11p (with the usual regional variations), any unit exported is 11p. It used to be 8p in both directions, went up to 11p for new contracts/renewals etc around April and I don’t believe has changed since. I renewed at 11p in December.

I've seen them derate them in the past & it took a while for the podpoint app to catchup with the new rate - there's a sainsbury's near me that has a 7kw charger limited to 3.6kw.

If it's one of the newer leafs (the second generation from around 2017) then it uses the same cable (type 2 cable) for home charging. If it's one of the older ones, those use type 1 cables & you would need an adapter.

There used to be two different price tiers (8p/kWh if you had a Tesla, 10ish if you didn’t), and they asked you not to charge betwen 4pm and 7pm (or something like that). I think that was very much a low price to get enough people onto it to work out how to make it work. Now there’s only one...

I used 12 MWh in 2021, that’s 2 EVs (not a huge amount of mileage though last year - maybe 10000 miles between the two of them) and heating/hot water/cooking for a 4 bed detached home. I work from home so the heating is always on during the day

For what it’s worth it feels like when paired with the octopus Tesla energy plan there is an element of that. The past few days of solar haven’t been huge (15 kWh, 12 kWh) relative to my daytime consumption & the PW was charging overnight for those. Last night the forecast for today was for a...

coincidentally I queried a bad failover with them a few days ago & got a reply from tesla today, partly to say that (as you observed) the type of grid failure may impact the swapover, but also pointing out several issues with how the wiring had been done (how tesla know all this I don't know -...

Not in my experience - lights flicker for a second, things like the tv will usually switch off. I have my broadband router & a few other bits on a very small UPS, otherwise even a powercut for a few seconds results in a 2-3 minute wait for the internet to reconnect. The oven clock doesn't seem...

I would avoid EVBox if you can - took me months of chasing to get them to replace a faulty charger. Was charging well below the max rate, for ages they said it was normal for it to throttle back to avoid overheating, even overnight at <5 degrees). When they did eventually relent they then said...

That the price of electricity is proportionately up less than gas maybe ? (+34% vs +81% for the per kWh cost under the cap. ). Or in my case up less than the price of hearing oil.

Their “getting there” page says there will be 150 ev charging bays. No mention of brands or type though.