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The ecar connect app works well and there seems to be a fair few of them about the place. They've changed it recently though and it now requires a minimum of €10 (they probably got fed up of me leaving a debit balance on their app! 😄). You can use a UK debit card to add a balance. They will also...

I had assumed that with the cars being so close together on the VIN that they'd be very close in age.

How would a 21 plate be out of warranty? I thought that the M3 warranty was 4 years, unlimited mileage in the UK? https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/vehicle-warranty

Both front wheels wore the tyres down to the canvas on the inner 40mm or so of the tyre, so there could be some other factor at play here.

2020 Model 3 (refreshed model). I got the dreaded front suspension squeak and had the upper control arm replaced at the beginning of June this year. The squeak returned and the same arm was replaced again at the beginning of September. One month later and the squeak is back 🤬 Three control arms...

I wouldn't worry about that at all. Firstly, you can disable that in the current version of the app. Secondly, if (and its a massive if) it ever happened it would be a rare eventuality. No point in letting something with a fleetingly small chance of happening from creating worry and tension...

I thought that they were? They replaced the entire innards under warranty of my Andersen in December 22

Mine is now like Trigger's broom.....the only things left from the original are the side panels and the flip-up lid. :)

For what it's worth, I cannot fault the new owners. Prior to the administration, I noticed that the powder coating was starting to peel in one tiny area. Andersen sent a new panel out quick-sharp. In October I noticed that RCM errors were happening frequently. I would normally get maybe one...

Unless the charger is fed from a tail upstream off the feed into the inverter, then the EVSE load is seen as any other house load. I'm not sure how you would wire the EVSE into solar and not have the battery seeing it as normal house load. Also, in plenty of cases you may actually want to dump...

The IO terms specifically mention heat pumps AND home batteries as examples of Low Carbon Technology It depends on your inverter and what access the manufacturer allows. On mine (GivEnergy) it is very easy to stop the battery draining when the EV is charging. There are open APIs that allow...

I haven't found it to be. I expect that IO will be the future for Octopus. I can see them integrating and controlling home battery storage and heat pumps into the platform in time.

IMHO, MyEnergi are asking their integration to do a lot of heavy lifting here. Yes, It's really nice to have a single platform controlling the EV charging, hot water diverter battery and inverter. However, the prices look incredibly high and not having an gateway seems like a big miss. If...

The charging schedules used to appear within seconds of plugging the car in. I used to get them in the time it took to walk the 15 steps from plugging the car in to opening the front door. However this aggressive polling was preventing the car from sleeping and causing phantom battery drain...

There's no issue with using the A2 with IO. Just switch off any schedules in the app, if you have the Solar integration then make sure the dial is at 100% Grid and that's it.

Tesla can rustle up demand at the drop of a hat. They could have charged an extra €5k for the new paints and people would still be lining up to hand their money over.

Good news about the acquisition! Regarding the app, mine still appears to be working fine.

So if China is not shipping RHD MY and Berlin aren't making them yet, then where are the Model Y Performance currently coming from?

Not really. They've installed one of the world's most advanced paintshops in Berlin. The other running plants, AFAIK, do not have those capabilities.

Can you please show me exactly where in the S.75 regulations it says anything at all like that?

£600 seems a lot to move a charger, unless the cable run is massive. At that price I'd be tempted to see if the new owner of your old house would strike a deal with you?

Still 100% working here.

Thats not really the point with solar. Unless you have a huge amount, then relying on PV to charge from flat will be a non-starter. Where it is useful is to dump excess into the car instead of exporting it. If you have a BEV then it is likely that you are on some Time Of Use contract for your...

The administrators biggest objectives are to either rescue the company, or get the best possible price for the company, either as a going concern or by selling off any remaining assets, to get the maximum return for its creditors. The needs of former customers of the company will be way down the...

Yes. You can also switch off IO smart charging and just plug the Pug in to charge. IO give 6 hours of cheap electricity per night, so charge the Pug at those times.

You should be fine, as long as the PodPoint can act in dumb mode. We have a Model 3 and a Pug 208-e. I just charge the Pug when we need to in the IO chap period. IO will not be able to control the Pug, just the Tesla, but it's no real hassle.

It always has been, AFAIK. Its why I moved from the 5 hour Go Faster to IO in summertime- cheaper and longer than the 5 hour Go Faster. Octopus really want to move away from demand side pricing and onto more intelligent pricing structures. https://octopus.energy/blog/intelligent-demand/

All they'd need to do is publish an open API. Then people could control the device through, for example, Home Assistant. Some of the Andersens are OCCP compatible which should mean that they can be controlled by an OCCP compatible application. Its a standard problem with IOT devices- if they...

Or use Intelligent Octopus which will handle the charging and make sure that it charges only in off-peak (even if it has to extend the off-peak times). The only thing that i personally will really miss about the app is the ability to use excess solar during the day.

So it has, I stand corrected.* Thank you. * 😆

You can set both a charging start AND end time in the Tesla app. No need to resort to third party apps. Use the Charge page in the Schedule part of the app to set the charging start times and then select the Off-Peak end time in the Departure page.

It should be fine as Kraken controls the car directly. The Andersen needed to be in "dumb" mode to work with IO.

Yeah, it was a PodPoint 50kWh charger that delivered at 48kWh. I took 25kWh from it at 40p per kWh. Later that day I had to charge at a very busy Tebay. That never went higher than about 66kWh and I was charged 67p per kWh.

I charged at a Lidl at 3PM recently and that was cheaper than the Tesla off-peak rate. Nearly as fast as the Tebay SC that Ihad to use later the same day too.

Losing the app access also means losing the ability to tell the charger to use 100% solar excess. I can set mine to charge the car purely on excess power that would otherwise be exported, and then back to 100% grid energy at night-time. Ah well, maybe someone will be able to develop a local or...

I noticed this when charging at Tebay.

The app seems to be fully functional this AM. I can access it, including the reports. I'm sure it will soon go offline unless it's bought as a going concern or someone manages to integrate local control. Later units are OCCP compatible (post early 2019, IIRC), but no idea if that means diddly...

I hope that it's better than the fingerprint reader on my new Pixel phone. It's lucky to get it right more than 50% of the time 😡

It flashed up on my screen this morning too (2022.28.2). Nothing in the notification panel afterwards either.

I'll give that a go, thanks

Mine keeps coming back on. Very annoying.

Confirmation bias. Also, possibly, a new vehicle interior will be off-gassing volatiles from the various plastics and vinyls. He may be sensitive to some of them. If this is the case then it will rapidly decline over the next few weeks.

I'm pretty sure that it's on the record that Go off-peak is losing them money, so that makes it more than opinion.

T What makes you think that? The off peak ocst is outrageously cheap compared to what most people are having to pay. It already is a loss-leader for Octopus, but you want to make it an even bigger loss maker?

I've moved most of my DHW over to the immersion heater. I've set the Solar iBoost to run the immersion for an hour at 04:30 (which draws mainly from the batteries). Any excess solar heats it during the day. The gas boiler is scheduled to come on for an hour from 16:30 just in case there was no...

I can't complain. 16.4kWh of battery storage means that virtually all of my power needs are met during the cheap period. If I went looking for sympathy or reductions then most people would rightly laugh at me. Paying 7.5p per kWh in the current climate is ridiculously cheap. And that include my...

Everything doesn't have to be about financial payback. My iBoost has used nearly 600kWh since I installed it in March this year. That's 600kWh of gas that I haven't consumed and a pile of CO2 that I haven't chucked into the atmosphere.

You can also get slots earlier than the normal 23:30 start time. I had a 21:30-23:30 slot offered recently.

Its the aircon evaporator getting a bit mouldy. I had it during the heatwave this summer. You can clean the evaporator and replace the filters, though for every YouTube video showing how to do this, there's as many comments saying that it didnt solve the issue. I ran the heating at max for an...

I plugged mine in this morning and asked for a 65% charge for 10:30 (currently at 37%). It straightaway gave me from 08:05 to 10:30. So that's this morning all at off-peak rates for the whole house!