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One just needs a similar sized battery unit though the market for these still need honing in on the perfect size, output and weight. Unit needs to be able to put out close to 3 kws and have a capacity of about 3 kwh and maybe take some 400w foldable solar panels which do not take up too much room. EVs will oft go well beyond zero miles range but drop in to turtle mode around that zero miles but many do a dozen miles or more beyond zero These units are following a similar rapid technological improvements in energy density and quick falling cost. I will be looking to add to my Allpower 2000 pro with 2.4 kW inverter and better than the 1.5 kwh battery which is on the small side. Like EVs the tech progress with batteries is awesome Nd they can hold electricity downloaded at 9p per kwh which will give 4 or 5 miles for each 1 kwh, nice.

There are cars on the road without over the air updates ???!!! How do their satnav work with any reliability ??? Renault have had for years. If you dig in to the Media Nav system one can see the EE details. My Satnav, which is a mixture of Google and TomTom apparently will even show me a picture of the building I am heading for. It must give Renault heaps or information on where I eat, hotels, shopping. Worth a fortune to sell on I would think. Might even give me a good alibi sometime in the future.

Sweeping generalisation. The Renault Zoe, along with the LEAF the founding EVs in Europe has a quite compact and bijou driver display and centre consol tablet, about 9 inch corner to corner, it has knobs for the climate ie blower power, temperature and directing air feed, several other button as well for eco mode, air conditioning override, lights height adjustment, all the windows up and down, mirror controls to name some of them. Not at all gratuitously weird and similar to my Mark 3 Octavia and other cars before it. The console in front of the driver is quite this decade but it is what I would expect from any newish car, EV, hybrid or just plain old ICE. Just amazes me that people with so little knowledge get to expound their miniscule knowledge to such an wide audience. As we say at sea " empty vessels make the most noise".

Geoff Buys Cars Youtuber lives close to me, somewhere in the Worcesterestershire area. Hope I do not come across him and feel the need to call him out as an Agent of Chaos. (And a Click Bait low life driving around in his dirty old pollution machines).

Software is only as goods as the programmers who write it but machines can be consistent. Autonomous driving will be approved for general use on the road not when it is perfect but when the software continual and consistently out scores human driving performance. Systems failures is one of my main areas of audit and software performance is one of the main areas of failure but usually the human individual not using the machine in the proper is best way through lack of understanding, training etc. Post Office incident is an absolute crying shame and one can find several other similar flaws in many types of software. We have to rely on software such as the engine, or electric motor, map in one's car and this is the way of the future. No cable controlling the butterflies in one's carburettor but all fly by wire. It is already here. What I oft see is default value not set to the safe position so with the car analogy default of a failed sensor must create a safe value of slowing or stopping the car rather than Wide Open Throttle. Not everyone gets this right sadly and these errors may creep though both alpha and beta testing and in the the live customer experience. Lawyers with then makes lots of money as product not fit for purpose. Probably will always happen with our cars and eventually with our personal space ships jumping in and out of hyperspace to visit someone in another star system but ends up crashing in to their sun due to a system malfunction. Great word system, can meaning anything.

A HCI issue. Human Computer Interface with the human having a senior moment. Computer was performing within parameters, human was not.

Major study subject in my OU degree whilst with customs was the very sad case of Piper Alpha. For those too young or just forgotten......

Did work for HMRC, and Department of Transport, then got lured to the dark side working for pwc for about twice the salary, then customs software and then international logistic company in customs compliance. Before all that Merchant Navy Engineering Officer on diesel engines, main propulsion and generators units. Nearly 46 years in a sentence ! Work for a french conglomerate who have many wings ie logistics, battery tech, newspapers, film business.

So many instance. Tianjin port explosion.... We have an office at Tianjin Beirut which our office on the docks perimeter was partially destroyed...... & fire at our battery factory in Northern France...... All due to goods in a nearby warehouse setting fire to an adjacent one which gathered such heat to compound the fires massively ......

I will look more closely next time I am up. Did do some visits to Dover fuel Solution (aka Tokheim) in Dundee, Tayside, might be the largest employer in Dundee since Michelin pulled out. So glad to see they have added EV chargers to their portfolio when they were mainly know for fuel pump dispensers at gas stations and are moving along in to the electric era (DFS- Dover Fuel Solution not the furniture store) Picture of a pretty EV charger which I will look out ........ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Mc Guinness Director of Product Management, Electric Vehicle Charging, DFS# “Electric vehicles can offer benefits to both drivers and the environment. Operating with the same, if not better, processes than their petroleum and diesel counterparts, electric makes your journey better ergonomically, economically and environmentally.”

Super glad to see it. How much solar in November, December, January and February when you are some at nearly 60 degrees latitude plus adding the 23 degrees of the obliquity of the ecliptic ? I know from my panels that in the depths of winter I am getting only 1 or 2% of my rated output ie about tenth of summer power. Mind you solar panels have dropped in price massively and all we now need is for the efficiency of panels to move up from around 20% to around 50% and their usage will be further reinforced. Scotland not helped by picture as below..... https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2014/07/is-the-uk-sunny-enough-for-solar-panels-to-work

By then scotland will have so much tidal and wind power, and hopefully battery and eventually hydro-storage power it will not need a Chenobyl/ Three Mile Island potential within its borders. Not sure Scotland will every have much solar except in June and July.

From my personal stand point the overnight rate is still fantastically low at 9p per kwH and the Day rate is now so cheap (less than 30p per kWh) that it is not even so bad for a quick pre-condition. Add that to the ability to sign in to the Electoverse discounted public charging which has monthly billing rolled in to ones house electricity and gas, which one is likely to be in credit with all the rate cuts on that supply and whether it is home supply or using the Octopus discounts on many thousands of public chargers in the UK, Octopus just added another supplier to their network, happy days. Octopus France rate do not look as good as UK's rates for night time but better than the UK rates for Day time. It is because France has a the nuclear sites and much less wind I suppose so a flatter cost model by day and night. French nuclear workers get their pay rise and I presume the rivers are full again so those riverside nuclear plant can now work at full bore. Perhaps need some heat pump set ups like we are seeing in Germany, Sweden etc to get some almost free power to add to the French grid. https://www.octopusenergy.fr/offre-electricite-tarifs

I read the first bit earlier but then it came up with a paywall, or what I thought was a paywall but was in fact just a subscription request. Too little information provided and not enough good journalist questions asked or reported. Is he in an expensive car insurance area, is a performance/dual motor car getting the massive insurance hike, has he picked up a speeding ticket which has failed to mention. Could not see that in the article when scanning it. We will see if such scare stories such as fires and high insurance quotes scare the TESLA buying market but I doubt it and the TESLA sales figures are going from strength to strength despite retooling for the new Model 3 and other new models. If it becomes a problem I would expect TESLA to come up with their own insurance policy just like the effectively solved the charging issue by coming up with their own charging network. The move to EVs is unstoppable. It could be slowed a bit by EU/UK Anti dumping measure and internal duty recovery schemes but the technological pace and the rapidly falling price of the technology has EVs on course to be the obvious vehicle of choice for most within the next 6 the years and most ICE cars relegated to historic rallies.

Is going to be a problem. Was talking to my neighbour who has a competition packed M4 and he was saying it is a worrying scenario when you could be at the lights with an MG4 Extreme which is nearly a second quicker to 60 mph. TESLA are doing an software update which is giving a 100 extra horsepower to existing model Y owners so not surprised insurance company are nervous about EVs that accelerate faster than most people can think. Answer will be to have, like we have had with motorbikes which do 60 in less than 4 seconds, or less than 3 seconds or 2.5 seconds or so and then there were many schemes where horsepower could be limited like we have for bikes ie to 12hp for learners or 45 hp for A2 Licences or 100 hp as a voluntary manufacturer's scheme. Lots of chances to insurance based on a horse power and maybe torque limitation. Issue is EVs are just so much quicker accelerating than ICE cars and what insurance company wants to insure a car with drag strip impressive acceleration ? One of the Ozzy states will not let learners under a certain age have L plates on many EVs and particularly Performance and Dual Motor TESLAs as just too quick.

John Lewis is not an insurance company. They are a name which is a front for one or more actual insurance companies. Lloyds bank did this to my son when he moved from an ICE car to a much more powerful hybrid. Ditch going through these paper fronted companies, get on compare the Meerkat and don't deal with such muppets again.

Why would anyone choose OVO over Octopus I am wondering ?? Only reason I can see is Octopus are major supporters of Arsenal FC so could not see a Spurs fan going with Octopus and maybe even a Hammer.

Its fine and improving by the day. Might be that some of the charge companies go bust as TESLA put them out of business by being so much cheaper.

As I said above it was over a who year for me with my 20 hours a day price dropping from 40p per kWh to just under 30p per kWh so actually by one quarter for me but I get 4 hours at 9p per kWh so if I left my fridge freezer on, which seems to require 100Ws to keep it going then I was paying 83p per day for my fridge freezer (20X4p+4x0.75p) ie 83p but now I am paying 64p (20 X 3p+4 x 0.9p) which is just under 64p so 83/64 = nearly 30% less but I actually did before, and do now, effectively only pay about 24 x 0.9p ie less than 22p a day to power the fridge freezer. Actually power the laptop, charge phones, shaver a many other items. The Allpower solar gen has 100w US type C as well as several type A so most things get charged via the batteries which are also grabbing solar power from my panels to help reduce even the night time downing need for lecky. Biggest download is for the EV on the nightime lecky as this dwarfs the power for the solar battery as they are only 4 kwh but the car is 50 kwh. Washing Machine and Tumble Dryer set by timing clocks to use the 9 p per kWh lecky too, unless I am up anyway watch motorsport from Far Asia or Australia.

One does not have to permanently mount either the solar panels or batteries which hold cheap electricity from off peak grid supply or that from solar panels. One just takes the array and the batteries with one when one moves. Example of solar array, a sol tracking one and a battery which has solar as well as grid input and an inverter capable of powering home appliances. Allpowers, Bluetti and Ecoflow are common choice and can be had for under a grand and will save about a £1 a day and they will work for a decade giving near original capacity. They can be daisy chained to supply many GWh of power, enough to supply the house's major appliance through the day and then be recharged again at night on the cheap lecky. Some people carry them in the car as emergency charge ie Bjorn Nyland in his EV drive the vehicle until it dies tests.

Uk just had a second Scandinavian 1.4 GW interconnector plumbed in a few days ago, plus more people getting solar and getting home battery storage plus charging their car on cheap overnight lecky like I do. If electricity did go up I would install several kws of solar panels, their price is falling like a stone same as home storage batteries. Electricity is a ubiquitous fuel and if one source becomes expensive then just find another unlike diesel which comes from people who chops hands and heads off or start wars and both and control the price to fund such. Russia has just decided to double it arms budget, just as the US senate decided to stop further finance to Ukraine. Where does Russia gets its money. I gather Saudi has been refining Russian heavy fuel which diesel is fracted from. Smart meter measures usage. Octopus just lowered my day time per unit price massively. Oil is up nearly a quarter since June and the pound has lost about 5% of its value against the US dollar. Noticed the change in pump prices over the last couple of months ? More to come !

MHEV, Mild Hybrid? I have one ie my Arkana, it is not great round town on mpg, maybe 40-45 mpg. The non-plug in hybrids seem to be good like the ETECH series with Renault. 60 to 80 mpg for a these models whether segment B, C or D segment.

Apologies. Mine was coming off an annual tariff so the step down over a year rather than the 3 month step. I am quite happy with 29.9 p per KWh, combined with the 9 p per kWh for 4 hours I suppose that gets me to your 27 p per kWh if I had linear use around the clock but when one can use over half electricity in the 4 hours it give me an average cost of less than 20 p per kWh on the old and new tariffs. Greg Jackson of Octopus is the man. They are still making quite a loss per year but still getting massive investment.

Octopus users, I would have thought. My daytime rate has gone down from 40p per kwh to 30 p per kwh so by a quarter. Night time did tick up from 7.5 to 9 p per kwh but still ridiculously cheap.

Today, the 1st of October, price of electricity to home owners has dropped by some 20% meanwhile the pound against the USD, what oil is bought and sold at has fallen by 3.3% making imported diesel erven more expensive which will further push up the price of diesel at the pumps. There are more and more renewables coming on stream plus more international interconnector to countries with excess electricity much of the time. Oil prices are controlled largely by the Saudis and to some degree the Russian where as electricity is a commodity traded by the minutes and sometimes in such excess it can be given away for free and increasingly so. So to go a vehicle powered by a fuel price controlled by despots or one which is increasingly falling towards zero could and should be part of your thought process I suggest. Youtuber Davetakesiton I think might be a Youtuber based out of Lancashire and like most UK places there are dozens of new chargers popping up every week and huge amounts on the trunk road network and with TESLA opening up its network to non-TESLA it is going to be the case that access to chargers that cost similar to home charging prices are going to be the norm at those hubs. Latest vid below. I do not have an idea what the market for 3 year old EV cars which have a one and a half tonne towing capacity. Model Y towing capability is 1600 kgs, not the best selling car in the world for nothing, much as ford was in its heyday. Mustang-e towing weights were poor and have only just be upped. https://octopusev.com/ev-hub/best-electric-cars-for-towing