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Because I'm retired, I have the advantage of charging my car in the afternoon on solar, so that helps with my bills. So, after a little over a year on Tesla Energy, my bills were $150 in the winter months (Jan and Feb) because my pool runs 24/7 when it is cold, $30 in March, <$5 until June...

Anyone else get impressive pay for their power tonight? Tesla drained my batteries when the price went up to $1.00/kWh.

I just ordered 2 PW2s and they are using the inverters from my 2 PW+s. I can’t do the VPP because of the PW+s, but can I use the 2 PW2s for VPP? I’m sure the PW+ inverters will be the problem, but just wondering.

Apparently if you have the steering wheel delimitation issue and get the steering wheel replaced, you will now get the redesigned yoke with better material and the center horn. I'm pretty sure if you have the old yoke, you will eventually have delimitation issues.

Glad it is apparently fixed, I will not know until I get on faster WiFi. This reminds me of the engineers at work doing PowerPoint charts who think, “What this presentation needs is really cool animation so that everyone in the room can watch my charts slowly populate.“

Just the opposite for me. Veeeeery slow on my iPhone 13 mini, but quick on my iPad Pro.

For the next week, I’m having to use a very slow WiFi connection and the animation is extremely slow and doesn’t give me as good a view of my house as before. Parts of the numbers are cut off, so I cannot tell how many kWs are going to the grid and house. I’m hoping they fix it soon.

This has been reported to Tesla by several people, but is still not fixed. I have a spreadsheet that I keep and I use the CSV data, but then hand type in each days "to grid" numbers that I get from looking at the app.

Working for me. There are a few issues, like it sometimes splits the available solar so that some goes to the car and some goes to the Powerwall. I would prefer that all go to the Powerwall until it is at 100% and then fill the car. I varies my amps to just what is available from solar.

I was just downloading the app when you posted this. I'll check. I've started adding an additional column to my spreadsheet that is what the app says I'm exporting, so I've started using that number instead of what is in the CSV file.

I've been thinking about this for my new detached garage I had built. During the build, a very old and large oak tree fell onto the garage foundation (before framing luckily), probably because we moved too much dirt from around it. This allows for plenty of morning son to now hit the new garage...

Yep, $5 at my house right now. Draining the batteries quick

I’m only at -$114 so far, but that is why I think I need another PW. Tonight, I quit selling at over $2.00/kWh because my PWs ran out of power. I still have not got my August bill yet, so maybe I’ll be close to $400.

I was able to easily turn off CoS in the car and then set the single slider to 60%, but the amps kept resetting to 5 amps no matter what I did. I changed it 5 times and everytime it switched from 48 amps to 5. I finally plugged the car into my 220 outlet to charge it and I got a notice from...

I thought I understood CoS until today when I really need to charge my car at 10:00 am. I've turned off CoS, but no matter what I do, I can't get my system to charge the car above 5 amps. I know the Powerwalls are not fully charged, but I don't care. I just want the d%$# car charged at 48A. Any...

I think this just happened yesterday. I thought something had gone wrong because it brought this up when I clicked Tesla Electric and then Energy Price. It is the same graph that you get when you click Energy and Grid. I was hoping it would let us go back in the past to see the price paid and...

I've also noticed that the To Grid numbers are way off. It appears they are putting the wrong data in the To Grid column. I even went back a month and the new downloaded data does not match the data I downloaded before. Everything matches except the To Grid Column.

I have a smaller house, but use more power, probably because of terrible insulation in a 50 year old house. I also have gas heat. My average electrical usage is ~2000 kWh/month. Tesla sized a 20 KW system for my house with 3 PWs recommended, but I went with only 2 PWs to save money. In 2 years...

The email I got also mentioned Powerwall 3, but are there any PW3s out there? I’ll order one as soon as they are available.

I also notice that if I go back a month and download the month, it is different than it was before. I messed up my spreadsheet for July before I realized it. I guess I’ll wait to see if they fix it and then fix my spreadsheet.

Anyone else download the Energy Data monthly using the CVS file? I put it in a spreadsheet that I keep to see how much I generate, use, and sell so that I can make better plan decisions. Ever since CoS was released, the "To Grid" (how much you export) column seems to be way off. The app says...

My car updated to 2023.26.8, but my PWs are still on 23.12.10. Last night worked a little better after the update since it is mostly filling the PWs in the morning, but is is still putting 1 kW into the car. I guess I can live with that and overall it is working fairly well, at least I'm not...

What it did to me yesterday was fill up the car instead of the PW in the morning, but then switched to PW Priority around 11:30. At that time, it filled up the PW from both solar and grid, so I had to pay 11.2 cents/kWh to fill up the PW because Tesla Electric wanted it full by the 4:00 peak...

My car updated to 2023.26.8 last night. The release notes just say Minor Fixes, so I'm not sure what the change is. I plugged the car in today after the PWs were full and it worked fine on CoS. Yesterday, the system was exporting solar at a much higher rate than it was being put in my car, so I...

I was saving money when I had the system installed and only got the 2 PWs instead of the recommended 4. Now I regret that decision, but it seemed smart at the time.

Now that I have CoS, I'll have to watch. I had to opt out of Storm Watch temporarily because my system stayed in Storm Watch mode 24/7 because of Red Flag alerts. I understand the potential of fires in North Texas during this heat, but I would prefer to opt out of permanent Red Flag Storm Watch...

I was really hoping that they had solved the Powerwall priority issue, but it hasn't worked out as hoped for me. Since my car was at 25% after driving it yesterday, I plugged it in last night, set the charge from anything at 60% and CoS at 80%. I had the car scheduled to start charging at 1:00...

Actually, I just logged out and re-logged in on my iPad and suddenly CoS it showed up on my iPhone. No need to uninstall as far as I can tell. The iPad is not set up as a key, I mainly use the iPad to check the solar generation.

I've been downloading the CSV file for awhile and just keeping up with it by the day. Be warned that starting with the recent update with Charge on Solar, the format of the CSV changed by adding a vehicle column and switching the order of the other columns. Plus, I've noticed that the To Grid...

At the high buyback prices, Tesla Electric sucks down my Powerwalls pretty fast and I'm importing power by about 7-8:00 at night. I've seen power still over $1.50 at that time, but I was out of battery capacity. I'm trying to figure out if it is worth it to buy another Powerwall, probably a...

I got my bill yesterday and I have a $73.37 credit for the month. That is a total of $114.95 credit for July and August. It will be interesting to see how well this works out for offsetting my fall and winter bills. My average buyback price for August (7/12 to 8/12) was $0.37/kWh. For the last 2...

Until mid-July, I was only getting about 2-3 cents/kWh, but it has gone crazy recently. Might as well ride it for as long as it lasts because I assume everything changes back after Labor Day.

So, it's August in Texas with no clouds, over-105, and an unstable Texas grid. That means that Oncor is paying me ridiculous money for my excess solar. This last week, starting at 2:00 everyday, I've been getting anywhere from $0.50 to $3.00/kWh. At these rates, I can't afford to waste the...

The one change I was not expecting was the car has a new recommended charge limit. Before, it said charge daily to 90%, but with this update, it now says only charge to 80%. That is what I usually charge to, but I will occasionally go to 90% if I'm generating excess solar and need a place to put it.

The car was finally updated last night, so I guess I'll have to wait a couple of days for the communications to work its way through the system before seeing Charge on Solar. I did notice that my SPAN panel lost communications with my Tesla system. I hope this is not related to the new software.

I use Stats. It works, but requires lots of intervention and you have to turn it on everyday when you are ready. The intervention is manually setting how much power your house will be using and adjusting it as the day goes. It is also not free

If it is part of Tesla Electric, probably. I think they sent out this info by mistake and it has now disappeared.

Has anyone had 2026.26 installed in their Model X? I've been wanting to try Charge on Solar, which requires 2026.26, and it was asked in the forums if anyone with an S or X had this version installed. Just wondering if anyone has seen this update yet?

I’ve been wondering that myself, I have not seen anyone with an X getting the update.

I guess I didn’t know I could get the yoke replaced with mobile service. Mine has started delaminating and I’ve been putting off getting it replaced.

I’m still waiting on the car to update so I can try this. Is it easy to wait until the PWs are near 100% and just turn it on? This would not be that different from the way I do it now where I manually tell the car to start charging as soon as my system starts exporting power. Hopefully this will...

I see Tesla removed the $25/month because it was apparently premature. I don’t see it anymore.

I also see that it lists “Low Flat Rate” without listing a Peak and Off-Peak rate. I wonder if this plan charges a single rate all day long that is higher than our current off-peak rate.

Since we already have Tesla Electric, I wonder how this will work with current Tesla Electric rates and VPP. I do see that if you charge the car outside of the free hours, the rate is higher than we pay now.

It is a very weird location. Under your car in the app, click on Schedule and it is there. No idea why they decided to bury it there. I was glad they lowered it to $25 rather than the rumored $30 per month.

I see that Tesla formerly offered this today for $25/month. It is in the new app under schedule when picking when to charge your car. I’m trying to figure out if this works for me because I’m retired and do not drive all that much. I checked my monthly charging and I charge about 300 KWh/month...

The new app version that came out today added the ability to charge your car for $25/month. This seems like a bargain, but I don’t drive enough to use it since I’m retired.

I’m not sure I understand this. My PWs never go below the Backup Reserve point, currently 25%, unless the power goes off. I guess you could just plug the car in when you are ready for Charge on Solar. Since I’m in the VPP, I’m not sure how any of this will work. Tesla controls my PWs when in the...