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No. I am still on ELRP VPP and it has said "No Event Scheduled" on each of the last three days (May 29, 30, 31).

Yes, some customers with a minimum number of stations are allowed to set up billing. Tesla keeps a few cents/kWh as a service fee. I have heard different numbers regarding the minimum number of stations required to participate in the Wall Connector billing system. This article says 6 or more...

If I were you, I would inquire with Tesla as to how to turn on the billing function. However, there may not be employees available to respond to such a query after recent staffing changes...

That's weird. If I look at the Charge My Other EV in the Tesla App, the site is flagged as "NACS site - Adapter Required. Supported: Ford, Rivian". However, there are Magic Dock adapters present and the Charge Here button is available in the app. I don't see why any other CCS vehicle wouldn't be...

The CT measurement system Tesla uses is not Revenue Grade. You could just as easily have a system that under-reports production compared to the utility meter. If you have a system that uses the Backup Switch (the device that goes directly behind the utility meter) there is a greater chance that...

No, the European Model S initially shipped with a modified Type-2 connector. taken from Wikipedia.

It's not that confusing because the cars that have official support, Ford and Rivian today, do their own filtering in their NAV systems so that they won't send you to a Supercharger that doesn't support the car. In addition, you have to use the Tesla App to start a session on a Magic Dock...

Tucson EV sells "Zero Adapters" that are J1772 to C13 or C19. You could use an off the shelf Tesla to J1772 adapter with it so you can use the Mobile Connector.

You don't know the history of Tesla cars in Europe. The original S and X vehicles in Europe used the Type-2 connector (same as the top of CCS-2) and the cars used Supercharger protocol for DC fast charging and passed DC current over the same pins used for AC charging. This is what the original...

The reason you have 4 wires is that the 14-50 plug can provide 120VAC and 240VAC. The voltage is 120VAC Black to White and 120VAC Red to White and 240VAC Black to Red. You don't need the 120V, so you only use the Red, Black and Green wires. Cap the White wire so it doesn't short to anything. In...

Conceptually, it seems so simple to just rectify a generator's output to DC and run it through a solar string inverter. Add an automatic start relay and you're done, right? I really don't understand why Tesla hasn't made this a product to add to their micro-grid solution.

You're not being specific enough for us to give you an accurate answer. Where did it show as a credit, how did they arrive at that number, and was there any detail about the adjustment? Post redacted bills if you are willing to.

You also won't get the benefit of pre-conditioning the battery for charging when going to a third party charger. When you navigate to a Supercharger far enough in advance, it will make sure the battery is at the optimal temperature for the fastest possible charging.

PG&E True-up and SVCE True-Up are separate. SVCE only covers the Generation portion of your bill. If you were a net generator as your post implies, then you won't get anything back from PG&E. You will have paid Minimum Delivery Charges and Non-Bypassable Charges and nothing else. SVCE pays net...

In the case of Enphase systems, the curtailment depends on your "Grid Profile". My recently installed IQ8A based system has this indicated under Grid Profile Settings: "Grid Profile: CA Rule21 201902 VV VW FW" What is your grid profile?

In an ideal world, what you way would be true. However, grid tied solar inverters have to follow the rules set by your local grid. Many utilities require solar inverters to support "ride through". What this means is that they should not modulate their output based on small changes in voltage and...

Just push the "Go Off Grid" button for the Powerwalls, then the CT can contribute energy from its battery. The most important thing is that the Wall Connector has to be on the backup side of the Powerwall Gateway. In my home's system, the EV charging circuits are in the main panel and not...

No. In normal conditions when the system is totally grid interactive, the solar will simply be exported when it exceeds the home consumption and the batteries are full. The system can only change the frequency when off grid. Solar will only be curtailed (reduced or shut off) in two conditions...

I thought the truck would not allow power export until one of the most recent OTA updates. I thought it was the one with the big feature updates like differential locking.

The accurate way to describe the situation is that the batteries will power the house and the solar will remain shut down until there is some buffer in the battery to allow battery charging from solar. When the battery gets full again, the Powerwalls will raise the frequency and the solar will...

Keep in mind that Tritium is in receivership at the moment.

The rating of the 100A sub panel is telling you the rating of the bus in the panel. The particular panel that I linked has lugs for you land the upstream conductors (ie. the existing wires going to your 14-50 outlet) and doesn't come with any breakers. The breaker (50A) in the main panel is to...

I would hope that the failure rate is not so high that a pack that happens to need to be refurbished doesn't already have a good PCS.

Because you can't buy a refurbished one. That and because people have seen techs literally throw them in a bin. Edit: I would love to be proved wrong, but I've never seen any evidence of Tesla repairing them.

When is someone going to figure out how to do board level repair on these? Sure, it's kind of a lot of labor to remove, repair and replace, but are we really going to e-waste these huge boards for ever?

Just like compound interest, small increments in rates that happen repeatedly, really add up over time.

Personally I would never use a 14 gauge cord for EV charging.

1. A 100A panel is cheap and I don't see any reason to go smaller. 2. Each breaker should be 50A because that's the size of the upstream breaker. That way you can use the full capacity for a single car charging. You could use a smaller one, but why would you? Be sure to properly configure Power...

Your car likely does have CCS capability. I believe an adapter like this will do what you want: https://a2zevshop.com/products/a2z-stardust-plug-ccs2-to-tesla?variant=42460899049672

Your location says "Texas". Your logic doesn't compute in Sacramento.

If they have argued it's not a Minimum, then surplus generators should be able to offset this fee with negative energy charges.

Yes, we will have to see the unbundled rates to see where the variable reduction goes. I'm thinking it must come out of the distribution charges, which means that the Generation Charges that are par value for the CCAs will remain mostly the same. How it relates to the MDC and NBC will also be...

It is common for an automotive part to come with its own warranty. For example, a Tesla drive unit installed in a RAV4 EV one month before the Powertrain Warranty expired comes with a 1 year warranty. If it fails 10 months later, 9 months after the powertrain warranty expired, it’s still...

My Powerwalls frequently charge to 100% then the SOC drops without discharging and charges some more. I assume the batteries are balancing, then charging some more.

I am not a Roadster owner and I have never tried to order a new Roadster pack, but I could swear that I have heard stories of people being turned down when they tried to buy one. Maybe I'm imagining it??? The point of my post was to have the prospective buyer look into it before buying a known...

Honestly, I'm surprised that the demo even makes the power flow math work where Solar + Powerwall = Home + Grid Export.

My thinking, however accurate or inaccurate, is that both the DCC solution and the Tesla Dynamic Power Management solution need to put a CT meter around the main service. So, the two solutions are equivalent in installation difficulty and the Tesla solution should cost substantially less for the...

Since this is a solar thread, we should consider this fixed fee in that context. 1. The current monthly charge is a Minimum Distribution Charge. If you have surplus generation credits, it does not offset MDCs. If this new monthly charge is a fixed fee and not a minimum, it could be offset by...

what did you expect for a DCC install?

I would be concerned that there is no guarantee that Tesla will actually sell you a new 3.0 battery.

I think the Dynamic Power Management for Tesla Wall Connector is significantly cheaper to set up than a DCC. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/finally-dynamic-power-management-for-wall-connector.320705/

In theory, Tesla could allow you to put a Neurio anywhere you want and provide different usage profiles. For example, EV only draws what the solar is producing or EV draws just enough to prevent the meter from registering any export. However, these features are all unlikely in the short term...

Yes. IMHO, the preferred way is to install a small sub-panel in the same spot as the 14-50 outlet. The sub-panel is only $35 and each 50A breaker is only $20. Then you wire each Wall Connector to its own breaker and set the Group to 50A max. The only drawback to this is that whenever a car is...

If you want solar charging, buy an EVSE that has that feature. Enphase bought Clipper Creek, so their smart units now have that feature. Emporia also has that feature, at least they have the feature to use solar energy that would normally be exported. I have Powerwalls, so Tesla Charge on Solar...

No, it's not. It is covered under the basic 4 year factory warranty.

In theory, at any given time, utility rates in total have to add up to the same amount regardless of the fee structure. So, by this theory, in order to increase the fixed fee for everyone, someone has to pay less per kWh. Now, I'm not naïve enough to think that this is actually how the CPUC...

I am not defending their price, but preparing the drawings and the extra visits to the site to wait for the utility to disconnect the service before the work and again to reconnect the service after and site visits for extra inspections could all be included in this line item on the quote.

First thing is that the plug adapters for the Mobile Connector don’t care about voltage. If you are actually in Europe, you should be able to buy a direct Mobile Connector Gen2 Schuko plug adapter. If you are un the US and want to use a European inverter to Charge your Tesla, just get a Schuko...

Utility billing and VPP compensation are completely independent.

I looked at the source tweet and there was $20,000 for a service upgrade to 320A and an additional fee of $2,500 to handle the permit for the service upgrade. I think the customer would have accepted the quote without those two items. I would be interested to see the single line drawing and...