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Meantime , despite Tesla being able to add the facility through a straightforward software update the ‘green sustainable Tesla’ fails to make it easy for its customers to use the greenest electricity. How do we best call Musk out next time he mentions sustainable / green / carbon reduction / etc ?

Agreed. My ancient leaf had facility for a one off 100% charge

The problem is that you can only ask the car to observe off-peak hours if you give it a ‘be charged by’ time. If this time target requires it to charge outside of off-peak hours using expensive snd dirtier electricity then it will. What people like me with slow home charging want is to be...

Ability to set the Y to charge ONLY during off-peak hours so as to use cleaner / cheaper electricity My 11 year old Leaf caters for this as apparently do nearly all competitor EVs Please update the software !

Sadly, you appear to be right. It was so easy to get my LEAF to default to off-peak charging only but override it when a special trip loomed. Serendipitious argues - I guess being spoiled by not having any discount for off-peak, I'm baffled why people want this functionality. You're driving a...

Just got my Y I am astonished I cannot default it to charge only during off-peak hours. My 11 year old Nissan Leaf does that just fine ! Having no way to charge in this manner without daily manual intervention is a real problem to customers like me who use standard household 110 or 240v...