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I get these occasionally usually if I don't give it time to initialise fully before setting off. Normally at the next start I am patient enough for it to work ok.

The lack of motorways or even much in the way of fast dual carriageways at this end of Norfolk has meant my last 2 100% charges have given an estimated range of 308 and 318 miles.

Using the app as others have said the 'nut' at the top right of the charging screen allows you to change the percentage, FYI the text on the app stays as 'long trip mode' but the graphic has the last two bars as a slightly different shade of white.

This sounds similar to the Tesco site near here. It has the option or 7,22 and 50 kW chargers, priced at 44,49and 62p IIRC. I have also tried their 22kW (PodPoint) and only got 7 despite my car being capable of 11 and usually charging at around 9.5 at other local '22kW' chargers.

Lovely clear blue sky here in Norfolk, just waiting for the excess to reach 2kW so I can turn on the granny charger to see what I can gain today.

As well as my MG I've got an old Honda Jazz that I use as a fishing/RC planes/horse feed and bedding and tip car because it's a little Tardis. The insurance renewal has just arrived and it has dropped from £166 to £142! the best the usual comparison sites can come up with is £188.

Our weekly(ish) email just arrived from the oil club at 57.45+, but 64p is a lot closer.

A lot of the local villages don't have mains gas (despite there being a sodding great main at the edge of our property) so there's a big market. The 20p was for a few weeks during one of the lockdowns, then it shot back up to around 25p!

I guess its a location thing, the oil club is normally the cheapest but only by 1p or so. Recently the price has been pretty stable but in the last 8 years it has gone from around 29p down to 20 briefly and as high as 80.

We have a local oil club that negotiate a price with local suppliers, they tend to deliver in 5-10 days, as they arrange the delivery at the most cost effective way which results in a small saving over the normal price. They don't do a top-up arrangement so you have to keep an eye on the tank...

Similar thing here, the boiler was replaced just before we moved here, so we have a nice efficient oil combo boiler (no chance of an Eddi here), new tank a couple of years ago plus all our radiators are finned doubles already. Our oil price is currently around 59p so a heat pump sounds an...

I've just looked back over the last 8 years and this quarter is panning out to be the worst since 2016 and looks as though it might even be worse than that with only 6 days left.

I've recently switched to Octopus Go, my in home display does not show the correct rate any more but the meter is working normally as in Octopus charge me the correct rates for electricity used. The IHD shows the correct usage but not the correct value, according to Octopus this is why their...

I think the FUD pedlars are having to change tack, now there's a lot more EVs on the road the gullibles aren't seeing the roads littered with burnt out EVs, stranded ones because they run out of charge after 50 miles, collapsed car parks or massive queues at chargers. Instead they hint at...

We did slightly better yesterday, generated 23kWh (£5.29 thank you FiT), used the granny to put 12 in the car and purchased around 2kWh during the same period, where the house load/cloud cover exceeded the excess.

Yes cooler clear spring days seem to provide a more consistent output, although this is partly counterbalanced by less daylight hours. I've also noticed that the output ramps up a bit quicker in the spring, probably due to the orientation of our 4kW array.

We managed to generate a total of 22kWh yesterday so it was better than I thought.

I know what you mean, I've just got home and noticed I'm exporting 3.2kW, so I've plugged the car in on the granny and 15 minutes later instead of exporting around 800w and charging I'm now drawing 1.5kW despite having 5 hours at 8.5p overnight!

Correct, and with a nominal 4kW array it doest take a lot to the drop excess below 1.4kw. At least with FiT I still get 23p per kWh even if I use it so in truth the 70p was probably covered by the FiT payment.

Grid topping up over the solar due to cloud cover.