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Same with the MG4, so there's no margin for error.

Tha maximum I've seen was around 142kW, I think the car states 140 max but it depends on temperature and state of charge. With the high power chargers they usually stop when they reach my 80% limit before I'm ready to continue my journey. That's exactly what I did when I got mine, turned the...

Your car will control the speed so any CCS will be fine, personally not had any issues with any DC chargers.

Thought I'd better check mine out, used it a couple of times to help the Rav4 back in March, still showing 3 of 4 bars but topped it up anyway. Came from Aldi/Lidl about 5 years ago branded Ultimate Speed, seems fine despite silly name.

The 1st June to 31st August quarter, we are on the middle rate, about 23p/kWh. They have just changed the reporting dates so I suspect the automated checker just got confused, I'll call them on Monday and sort it out then.

Here on the sunny side despite having car on granny, washing and dishwasher running I'm still pushing 100W to the grid so no gain for me!

I normally would have had mine by now too, but they rejected the reading as out of tolerance so are doing a manual check. Waiting for around £350 to turn up!

I bought an Aldi one around £40 I think about 5 years ago, still going strong. Didn't use it initially as its intended use was to power telescope but proved a godsend when our 'tip' car an old Honda Jazz developed an intermittent fault where it stopped charging the battery and giving a very old...

Me too, cotton load in washer, fast wash dishwasher, car on charge and 'Sunday lunch'. Not sure how much solar was being generated but the bill for that hour was just over 5kWh or £1.29. Sae red on the IHD for the first time as it was drawing 9.5kW briefly. It will be interesting to see what the...

yep I turned him off for EVer too.

Sounds like an expensive solution. Bjorn Nyland has used ECO Flow units to add a little extra when he has run the car battery out. Perhaps a a few of those would work, lighter to carry and you could be charging 1 (or more units) while the others are charging the car.

Had my 622GW + rear fitted by RS July 2023 all been fine. I disconnected it last week while the car was in the airport car park because I wanted to make sure it didn't drain the battery while I was away. I took the camera out when I got back to check what it might have recorded and was surprised...

Just back from a week in Austria and with everything unnecessary switched off we averaged 2.4kWh per day (costing about £1 per day inc. standing charge), but we have a large pond with 2x80W pumps that run 15 minutes on/15 off for 24 hours a day. Looking at Octo-aid most days between around 9:00...

As you say in your circumstances the convenience is worth the money, if I was doing my pre retirement commute a 7kW charger would be essential. All the points you made were considered last year after I bought the car but I decided to see how it worked out over the winter before committing. As it...

So far I've coped fine with the granny, Never wished I could charge faster at home in around 11k miles Excess never exceeds 3.3 kW, mostly seems to be about 1.5-2, often less than 1.4. A battery would be a better option assuming it would work with a lower threshold. True, 7p vs 8.5p per kWh so...

I plan to investigate Tomato once the new rates are published, a battery once I return from holiday. I'm still not convinced that a Zappi offers any significant benefit over a granny especially if I have a battery. There do seem to be a number of s/h Zappis on eBay, I wonder why?

Rolfe's journey has been quite an eye opener, it all sounds so simple, sell solar, power house from battery that is charged up on cheap overnight electricity, use some solar if battery is unable to cover house use. In practice it seems quite complicated to get it to work that way. When we moved...

I found that the oil club price was marginally cheaper than the same supplier buying direct in most cases. What I did find was that neighbours that used the 'top up service' did pay more per litre for the 'I can't be bothered to check my oil level' service than myself. One of the suppliers would...

Around 2700 in the UK with valid MOT.

Very late notification for the first session meant I didn't have time to set much up, plus with it being sunny I had a fair bit of excess so I saved a total of 35p! Be interesting to see how I did on the subsequent sessions.