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Whilst answering the Tomato Energy thread some memories from when I started working for one of the regional gas companies back in the late 1970s. I went there as a senior programmer, grade SO 5 or 6,grades were so important then. On my start day I was introduced to what I can only describe as...

Ah yes the carefully crafted 'bonus scheme' to ensure the execs stay on the gravy train.

I totally agree, when I worked for what became BG it was like working for local government, as bad as that was I bet it is way worse now. I don't know what the SOLR process is but I bet it involves a brown envelope somewhere.

My experience is mainframe based where there are not CSV extracts that you can just run, you can write a program easily enough to do that but it's extracting the right data from what are usually complex structures that is the problem. A house that becomes an HMO started as a simple...

On the MG4 it shows %age braking effort and the consumption screen 'should' show how much has been returned. Maybe a ZS owner will be able to help.

I used to think that a mortgage was a simple entity until I worked on one. The system was written in the 1980s and still running when I retired 10 years ago, and just last year an old colleague contacted me to see if I was interested in going back to work on it!

Our Niro gives the same warning at lower %ages than the MG, maybe its just part of the way the BMS is programmed, or just that at regen 3 it can put in a higher current that the BMS will allow.

I think the issue is that what seems to be really simple, address/person/meter may be the case for the majority of customers, can be very complicated when add in properties becoming HMOs, tower blocks with communal heating, sheltered homes, meter changes, address changes, person changes, bank...

My MG4 does that when the battery is at 100%.

40+ years in IT, including British Gas (late 1970s). Data migration is never that easy unless both companies use the same software and even then it can be full of pitfalls. It all depends on the structure of the data and what are the entry points as well as how well documented it was and whether...

You probably won't be able to see them for all the thick black smoke.

I set the Tapo to switch on 5 minutes before the car started the charge, and off 5 minutes after the car had terminated the charge. I found it useful to work out exactly how much energy was used and monitor the balancing process.

Oddly enough for the 22 months I used the 3 pin I would check the socket, Tapo (OMG he used a Tapo!) and plug each time I plugged in. Most of the time I just used the (then) 4 hour Go slot without any issues with just the occasional longer slot to use solar excess and one 28 hour charge! Now I...

Surely you'd pay more by having to drive around potholes. Around here at the moment there are multiple road closures resulting in some quite long diversions, another reason for rebate?

You seem to be very wound up by this thread, quite shouty and aggressive. I guess if your agenda is that EV drivers should pay the same as ice then you've made that point. I do consider that I pay zero if I use my solar, I get paid to generate (23p on FiT) and I still get 23p even if I put that...

No issues with using 3 pin EVSE here, including one mammoth 28 hour charge, just check nothing gets more than a little warm to the touch. FWIW get a type 2 cable so you can use the CPS destination chargers, they are not that expensive to use and give you another option before your EVSE is installed.

Absolutely so the TOTAL tax take on fuel duty is 52.95 plus the VAT, unless of course you are VAT registered.

Just don't touch the brake on the way out.

Probably the 20% VAT that you pay on the fuel duty.

The other gotcha is getting back in the car with a wet windscreen and the wipers left on, it restarts just quick enough to flick the water over the inside of the door as you close it. You soon get used tom it, so much so that now almost every time I get out of the Niro I forget to shut the car...