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We have oil heating but the rest is electric and 1.5 cars (only had 2nd one for 6 months) and around 8k miles each car. Our 4kW array has generated around 4mWh (on FiT) and we self consumed around 40% of that, that's why I need to investigate a battery to try and up that.

10! I just checked ours, a little over 4 so far this year. TBH smart charge has worked fine until the last couple of months. I would turn off smart charge if I just wanted to use the solar excess during the day but the rest of the time it worked flawlessly. Since they started with the odd short...

After the 'refuel in a minute' comment I was expecting; spontaneous combustion, brakes and tyres wearing out in 5k miles, council banned from multi story etc. etc.

Happened to me a couple of times but mine was 100% pilot error. I managed to switch the lights to off with that silly little switch on the stalk whilst going from dip to high beam (or reverse). Not a nice experience with Fenland roads with deep dykes just a few feet away parallel to the road.

Our Niro has it, like the older MG EV it has a front charge port so perhaps its because there is more chance of water getting in?

We have an MG4 and Kia Niro both 64kWh batteries with a Zappi. No issues really, the upcoming 6 hour limit on IOG means each car will get around 40kWh in any charging session, which is normally plenty. I have been trying their 'greener nights' initiative which is fine but delaying the charge...

It has been discussed a lot but I found when I used a power monitor with the 3 pin EVSE you could see the current slowly ramp down after it reached 80%. This could take 20 minutes much longer after a long break of doing any, before the car declared charge complete. This is the same behaviour as...

True, it's only that if the car is set to 80% and it stops there it will do a balance charge.

Interesting explanation but I'm not convinced. I tried exactly that scenario last week and it sailed on past 80% and stopped at 85% at 5:30. Whereas the previous attempt of setting the add %age to enough to reach 80% it stopped at 76%. I'm pretty sure this didn't happen until they changed how...

You can earn up to £1000 non ISA interest before tax (savings allowance, £500 if higher rate tax payer) then just to make things simple if your total income is £12,750 you can earn £5000 non ISA interest, but this tapers so if your income is £15,250 then £2500 non ISA interest is tax free...

Not really, as the SP counts towards the tax threshold, my SP including SERPS is above £12,570 so that portion is taxed as is any other income. The issue that has caused this is the freezing of the threshold for another 3 years, with the triple lock the SP is guaranteed to increase above the...

That might be interesting to try. When on Go I set the Tapo to switch on at 00:25 and the car to start at 00:30, finish at 05:30 and the Tapo to switch off at 05:35, primarily to record the amount used. At present I plan to charge the Niro on smart charge and MG4 on Zappi timed.

Do pay, I have an old defined benefit 'beer money' pension. they take half of that to pay the tax on the SP and 20% of the private pension.

I was in and out of SERPS over that period so I pay a little over £40 a month on my state pension.

Maybe it is location dependant, in an effort to balance the grid. I have noticed that Cambridge area will get some different 'offers' to mine even though it is not that far away. What I have noticed that since the greener nights initiative the %age added has been variable 50% requested 45-55...

Maybe they are fine tuning their algorithm, until the last couple of months the slots tended to be longer with positive breaks, lately the schedules have instances like 01:00-01:26, 01:26-02:35,03:00-03:15 etc. Sometimes even if the schedule shows a 3 continuous slot when you look at the logs...

I think the MG4 has the right balance, most of the things you need when driving are on the steering wheel and can be accessed by touch and of course the driver binnacle. I'd lose the pointless volume buttons and have a couple more customisable buttons in their place.

Our Niro is fine, the MG4 was fine until the latest changes to the schedules.

agree we have a Niro, loads of buttons seemingly randomly scattered over the dash. I much prefer the MG4 layout.

Correct, in the new year I want to investigate what AC coupled options there are, I'm still on FiT so don't want to disrupt it too much. In the summer the grid top up is negligible and I can max out 3.7kW. Winter I just charge overnight and even that is less than £20 a month for around 1000...