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was: Intelligent octopus, set the battery to charge to 25/50/75/100 depending on season (would be just about to set it to 75%) and maximise solar self consumption. now : Intellignet gives you access to Octopus SEG at 15p for export, and 7.5p import. So the more efficient route would be - charge...

They’re pixcell in the 2021 model we saw a teardown video of the units. 100 pixels so not like fancy new Audi ones but enough for basic functions. Someone mentioned the highland may be a new unit

seemed greyed out - I tried manually setting AC with recirc on but after pressing AC on and turning the fan up, it was greyed out. Didn’t press it so maybe it still worked though. I’d have thought auto defogging would have done that - but does it just use the fan like a numpty?

ok this morning I had a fogged up windscreen. Auto defogging took 10 minutes before it was safe to drive. came back to the train station this afternoon - same again! I don’t think I’ve had a car this bad, and I don’t even remember my Teslas being this bad before. This is a 2023 Y, had 3s...

Want to sell - Enhauto ‘S3XY knob’ - unopened, I’m just not going to get time to install it and use the car for several months so better it goes to a good home that’ll use it. its the model for model Y 2021+ £250 including tracked delivery.

I mean - everyone has things on their ‘must have’ list but if you’re looking at a Y you likely already know it doesn’t have active matrix and considering the other good points of the car, seems an odd thing to avoid it for. USS far more annoying and they aren’t coming back But then I’ve never...

it has about 100 pixels - I think BMW/Audi have moved on quite a bit since then? functionally yes but perhaps the lower resolution helps Tesla in this case as they can’t do anything *too* fancy. great news though, fingers crossed its usable

Note that while this is a useful change for tourists, it might not be changing to the official local pattern and just moving the beam. So it may not be enough for OP (wherever they are now)

They changed the amount of charge based think on government guidelines. But when I picked my Y up last June they also give you some supercharger miles which should be enough to top up nearby if needed. Bear in mind also some collection sites don’t have superchargers so charging a ton of new...

friend of ours does that to cut down to one car. I’d be tempted but then we’d be stuck with the wife’s e-golf which for long trips isn’t ideal :) and she wouldn’t want a bigger car.

damn. £550 last year with the Y - changed halfway through the year so only paid £80 to update so didn’t mind (was £450 for the 3LR before that) just got renewal from churchill - £870! Comparison sites lowest is £750 and goes to £810 if you skip the first few (may be ok but often limited...

Have you done Europe/long distance in the Y yet? Curious about doing a run to north Italy in it. Last year we did to the swiss alps but that was a model 3 LR and now we have a Y RWD so extremes on the range front

no I don’t think 360 used bluetooth, they were custom 2.4ghz I think. even early xbox one controllers weren’t bluetooth until later on

someone could probably mock up something with capacity buttons and a little microcpu that makes a clicky sound to simulate and you can stick on your wheel. I'd be tempted to mock up something with a 3d printer but the real one doesn't have physical buttons so that might be too good :P I just...

I thought we had variable rate steering already in the UK? So either that means steer by wire is allowed, or they're doing something with the power assist to vary the rate? Makes me think you could do that less rotation lock to lock without steer by wire necessarily?

The charge flap is powered - wonder how accessible that is to tap into

want it this way, or accept it this way?

I don’t think the issue is choice. The issue with BMW and a lot of others, is the use of ‘packs’. So you have the choice to have cruise control - but you don’t have the choice to *only* have cruise control. You’re forced to also buy a bunch of other things you may not want under the guise of a...

my arlo in the garden (south) is at 97% still and my north facing one is at 67% (although I ran the solar panel around the corner to face south but its in a passageway so doubt it gets much benefit from that). motion controlled solar lights if you don’t trigger them that often are probably...

You don’t give up FIT. You only give up deemed export which is the ‘50% of generation is assumed to be exported’ and you get paid something like 5p/kwh for that. So 5p for half your generation. The alternative is to move to SEG and get eg 15p for all actual export from octopus. Yes it’s...

It’s not about taking a couple of extra seconds IMO - I don’t like the idea of taking my eyes off my surroundings. You need to be particularly observant when parking or doing a three point turn to avoid pedestrians or other obstacles so looking down at the screen would potentially ran doing a...

whats the delta cost if you build into the roof and therefore save tiles? maybe not that huge. while they build to a price, they also build to the minimum technical requirements by law so if you included requirements for PV they'd include them and adjust prices as appropriate. If you build...

I really don't understand the fuss about smart meters. Yes I guess it allows for more control but only if you sign up for a scheme which requires it. For now it seems a reasonable trade for opening doors to more flexible tariffs and also giving us better visibility of the energy we use. You can...

I’m surprised we have mostly been ok with a 9.5 even when my wife puts on a double tumble dry session and we’re cooking (we moved to induction). I think even limited solar helps extend in those cases in winter too, to slow your discharge (plus that 9.5kwh is only covering 18 hours)

Hoo boy - just checked my stats for December which has been super dull and gloomy. 60kwh for the entire month, which is a good weekend in July!

sure dashboard with solar section on the side (you have to add this by editing the dashboard) clicking on the expand button brings it full screen and clicking on individual days shows you in more detail

What’s the difference between - don’t charge overnight but fill up with solar, then export excess - charge overnight to full then export all solar Aren’t both effectively giving you a full cycle during the day regardless?

lifton is now apparently open. 16x V4 and open to everyone

how would they know? I didn't even realise the separation was a thing.

for the battery owners and tech enthusiasts sure. but I'd bet a big chunk is normal people moving their dinner time or turning the washing machine off. Those will find it harder to adjust at short notice I think. I'm surprised they didn't already do this - they have intelligent flux with...

Do octopus require MCS for the 15p rate? I know they've said they don't need MCS for SEG but do they limit you to the lower rates without MCS?

thick and fast. If they can get a reliable, relatively short notice 500MW that'd be a pretty good win for when marginal generation is needed.

is the next/previous button supposed to skip between favourites? I thougth it used to but these days it just seems to jump to the next station on the DAB list. So eg Radio 1/2/3/4/5 rather than skipping from 2-6 which is the next favourite I have.

its possible they can't read your export meter?

My wife has done a double tumble dry so I was expecting to run out of juice by end of day anyway. I'd welcome using some peak rate to export some of it to just balance my day out at a lower average rate.

quite - as my experience on the 29th shows (thanks octopus). But the poster said they weren’t pushing back to the grid

how did you push back 3kwh if you didn't push back to the grid? fyi Givenergy worked for me. I don't have SEG but octopus gave me my export MPAN number (if you have a smart meter you should have one) and that worked. Octopus couldn't use it as they require an export tariff in place but that...

check a youtube video of how to replace a cylinder. You almost can't go wrong. I was surprised how easy it was. And if you buy the wrong size replacement from amazon you can just put the old one back. Takes 5 mins. The main thing looking for a replacement is measuring from the screw hole in...

Loop/bright etc apps seem to be able to access my half hourly import data just fine with me checking a simple box. Givenergy/Axel do seem to be able to access the export MPAN data externally but seems you need a SEG for it to be fully active? so still plenty of data sharing going on (with...

Octopus said they can't measure my export uniless I have a SEG setup with them. Even though they can see my export MPAN and confirm its active. That seems stupid. It means if you have a home storage battery but no solar, you're unable to take part (well unable to benefit from it, you coudl still...

What do we think the average home use is for 90 mins in the late afternoon/early evening? Maybe 1kwh? Perhaps less but if 1kwh then each person fully discharging an average 3kw battery could be helping remove 4-5 other homes from grid demand?

well so far they’ve kept them relatively outside of full peak time - perhaps recognising that being difficult to curtail demand so better to try and reduce it earlier in the evening? Many will be able to push dinner until after 6:30

this is genuinely interesting. There are likely an order of magnitude fewer people with home storage batteries, but they can potentially push out quite a bit more than individuals just cutting back use, so they could be pretty useful

makes a change from last years ‘who can post a photo from the darkest house with a candle in the window’ :) Heck I’m exporting and I doubt I’ll even get paid for it. Luickly the solar today helped me start with 95% so fingers crossed I can dump 5kwh into the grid and still squeak to 23:30...

I'm doing the same although don't know if it'll work with my system. We'll find out. Relatively low risk, we've had a decent solar day

headliner is probably worse than just sliding your finger on the screen. The auto guessing game is worse still. Any kind of multiple direction change like parallel parking or three point turn will be a PITA with any of those options vs keeping your eyes on the surroundings and just moving a...

you wouldn't. FIT pays solely on generation through a generation meter. It doesn't care how much you export or import. You could self-consume 100% of the solar and still get the FIT payment (from government pov its still reducing net demand by that many kwh I guess?) Deemed export uses the...

I think they ended the TEP. They now have a similar thing with givenergy though.

if you have FIT, my understanding is they don't use the export meter at all. They have a separately monitored generation meter to send info on generation (for FIT payments) and deemed exports (only needs generation data). The export meter (if you have a smart meter) will be picking up both...

cylinder was surprisingly easy to replace. open your door and there is a small screw that releases it and you can just pull it out. The main complexity is the ratio of distance between front and back of the door - so that when you put the new one in its the right length and that screw hole lines...