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I don't foresee people being forced into expensive peak slot tariff. The same price all throughout the day flat tariff will always continue. But as more people move to time-of-use tariff (or even type of use tariff), I think we'll see those flat rate tariff becoming more and more expensive, as more and more of the tariff comes from expensive periods, pushing up its average. Electricity energy storage is moving at a staggering rate. Of course there is still place for more fossil fuel stations right now, but keeping it running will only mean more money wasted on carbon capture in when net zero goals come knocking. I personally don't think those plants will be financially viable once storage capacity hits a threshold.

A day later, all I got was a reaction from @Graham Butcher. I guess there is some lying going on when he said: Then later tries to backtrack: What can be trusted from this person who never references sources. @Graham Butcher is the embodiment of man down the pub. I will gladly make my apology when the aforementioned, previously "provided document issued by the government"is found.

Hum, according to you, you did provide "a document issued by the government". Surely it's not beyond wit of man to make the same document surface again by looking back through your posts? If it's a link, the link could have gone dead, then it would support what you say right now. If it was an attachment then you've found support for your case. Perfect. If nothing, then we have a Pinocchio. Time to stop parroting what you heard from the modern equivalent of man down the pub.

It's a giant if. But reality is that battery are far less likely to catch fire than fuel in plastic fuel tank. Please refer to Luton and Liverpool car park fire. Again, please study risk analysis and statistics. The less likelihood of something happening, the less risk it poses. Just because numbers increase does not mean statistically it poses higher risk than something that is more likely to self combust. This is not what you said previously, you referred me to your earlier post that you said you've posted proof. Where is it? Why change tune?

A few more specifically on the ICE fire recall: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ford-recall-engine-police-b2599165.html https://news.europawire.eu/man-truck-bus-issues-recall-for-euro-6c-engines-over-potential-fire-risk/eu-press-release/2024/06/29/11/24/42/137553/?amp You are actually the one in denial. Hopefully those links raises your awareness with car recalls. Just because you are not aware does not mean those things don’t exist. And just because battery have a different burn profile, does not mean it is more likely to self combust. Risk calculation is mostly on likelihood. We have seen data suggest EV are a magnitude less likely to claim fire insurance, thus, battery EV have much lower fire risk. I think you need to stop posting your baseless rambling and start actually come up with something to back up your claims. Example:

Just a few quick google results: Hyundai/Kia urged to park outside: https://www.mlive.com/auto/2022/02/hyundai-kia-recall-485k-vehicles-over-fire-risk-owners-urged-to-park-outside.html Vauxhall Zafira recall: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/vauxhall/zafira/93176/vauxhall-zafira-recall-previously-fixed-cars-recalled-again BMW recall: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/bmw-recalling-917000-us-vehicles-over-engine-fire-concerns-2022-03-09/ As you have summarised, the insurance renewal refusal is due to active recall on the car. Great for video content for his target audience. Cars are complex machinery that anything could go wrong. Once the recall had been done, it should not pose any additional risk beyond normal. The same will apply if same fire risk recall were present on any vehicle. This is not EV specific.

And how many of those are in active use? It’s a numbers game. The more of something, the bigger it is a target for reduction. Any reduction will have a meaningful impact compared to targeting rarely used devices. Here’s an idea based on your logic: connect your car exhaust to solve the supply shortage for your food. Not sure about you, I don’t want anything out of ICE.

The video presenter talks about his personal usage, charging once a week. But as said in the video, unless doing over 100 miles a day, charging every day is really not needed. Key is having somewhere to charge. Policy makers need to concentrate on getting cheap AC charge points everywhere. Once that's in place, expensive rapid charging hubs outside of trunk road network are not really needed.

Around here, I don't believe there's any barrier to mass EV adoption. There's 34 charge points at this "electric forecourt" next to A1M, perfect for long journeys: Unrelated to cars, but this is a rather important point about EV adoption that many people just don't seem (or willing) to understand coming from liquid fuel. (vid starts at the important point, only need to watch ~40s, but rest of video is interesting none the less) I'd love if I can plug lawn mower into my car charge point. Or even better and more applicable for more people: pressure washer have a Type 2 socket!

I charged up ~45 kWh of energy, 30min yesterday. Forgot to pre-heat the battery on the way. The charging forecourt layout was brilliant, just what we need at all services. But the service building were closed and there wasn't an easily walkable path out of the Gridserve grounds, only car access. So left after 30min. The cable were really heavy and the phone app was a faff, felt like gone back to driving Leaf. I think I'll stick to Tesla superchargers for the foreseeable future. There's at least 4 superchargers at every Gridserve location forecourt anyway, so can easily stay in my walled garden. Was great seeing all types of EV coming and going though, good variety.

That's rather low...... In Leaf 24 kWh, with anything less than ideal 5 bar on battery temperature, it would charge at that sort of speed. But with 5 to 6 bars, it could accept 48 kW up to 55%. So I think 30 kW is rather poor for such a new car. https://ev-database.org/car/1705/Dacia-Spring-Electric-45 34 kW DC is fastest....... 🤯

And yet here we are, all deeply dependent on their hugely polluting products because of the enticing that was done before our times. Is it not a very good thing to be enticed to use a much less polluting product? What else is there to do on morning of Christmas day besides family activities? We usually take a walk on Xmas morning, because everywhere is shut and there really is nothing to do. I'm actually very happy to find something meaningful and different to do as a family this year.

Take Tesla supercharger as best case scenario, the per kWh price is always going to be higher than slower destination AC charging. Then remove Tesla's CapEx backing through sales of vehicles, load it all onto per kWh price. How much do you get? I bet it's pretty close what they are charging now. Make it into a family activity I've never visited Gridserve's Electric Forecourt. My very old parents are looking to buy their last ever vehicle, profile fits EV perfectly. A trip there and a demo of public charging.

Free (100% discount) Gridserve rapid charging on Christmas day, via their app: https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/free-ev-charging-on-christmas-day-at-all-gridserve-ev-chargers-4491724 I'm going to pop over to the newly opened Stevenage one next to A1M, with a low battery and get >50 kWh worth. Visiting their flashy forecourt is like EV rite of passage. Could also drive to South Mimms or London Gateway service with Leaf and then drive back, enough gained to cook Xmas dinner 😅

Who is Dekra? I've done similar test with my Leaf earlier in the year. No idea whether it's accurate or not.

What is BBC doing!? Article title: "Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked" The news story wouldn't get read if the title was truthful: "Whistleblower on Vinfast vehicle suspension sacked". There is nothing related to existing or future JLR electric car in this article, the design fault could surface on any vehicle manufacturer with any powertrain.

With same driving pattern and stopping at same locations (where every single location had charging facility, I didn't choose any of stopping location for charging, I simply saw they were plentiful) for same periods of time. An imaginary 40 kWh EV would have spent the same amount of time due to my comfort break needs. That was my point, my comfort break needs appear to be suitable to smaller battery EV. And EV chargers seems to be at every location I stopped. I live near North Circular London, Sunday morning took less than 15min to get on M1. The data presented was from home to M40 Warwick service north bound. So motorway most of the way. Can't get any faster than that.

I drove to Birmingham and back over the weekend. It was really difficult....... I had to stop and pee, just can't hold it in any longer! People who can drive 3+ hours really must have iron bladder. 😜 Longest was 1 hour 44 minutes started fresh from home on Sunday morning, only managed 100 miles despite driving "at speed limit" majority of the time. Plugged in for a top up whilst I emptied my bladder, decided to get something to eat as it was almost 12. Then I had too much and didn't charge anywhere else, arrived home at 30%. There were destination charge points at the car park I parked overnight in city centre, there were more chargers when I stopped to pee on the return journey. There were also a charger at the restaurant on the way back. Chargers everywhere, could have easily done it with any 40 kWh EV.

Did someone say free charging? JOLT gives 7 kWh for free every day. Today I had 10min spare and the charger were available. But it was only 22 kW DC, so needed to stay 20min for the full free ~25 miles.

Sounds perfect for to be battery powered: strict routes, total distance pre-calculated, refuel each night or at predetermined stops.

Solar generation scales well. I suspect the grid level battery storage has also done some buffering when the wind was blowing to help through last few days. Cheap tariff is only cheap because I exclusively use off-peak. Per kWh is slightly more expensive than "up there", not enough difference but it's indicative. I now think zonal pricing is the correct way forward.

The gateway detects the power cut, disengages contactors and then resumes providing power. I timed it, from me switching off grid isolator to lights come back on took around 5 seconds. Not very long but long enough to be noticeable and everything to reset. Hence need UPS. Whereas If I press "go off grid" in the app, it knows before hand and can disengage contactor without anything resetting, not noticeable. Battery systems usually is grid-following, sync with grid phase and measures current to match its inverter output to usage, tries to zero grid usage. UPS is line interactive, meaning it is always sitting between input and output, output doesn't need to be in phase sync with input. So any drop in incoming voltage will simply take power from the battery. UPS is also suitable to lead acid battery to float at 13.6v fully charged until needed. Though Giv-Gateway says impressive 20ms switchover time, I wonder how they achieved that. I seem to remember there's members here with Giv-Gateway, does your computer reset when you flip the grid isolator? Who was it has the GivEnergy AIO? I saw this one, tempted to attempt at making something. But there's not enough daylight these days. I can show V2H, being self sufficient off-grid + charge on solar (only the capability, no sun this time of year 😞 ), convenience and low cost EV ownership.

Corruption goes both ways: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/09/climate-leadership-council-big-oil-thinktank https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/02/12/fossil-fuels-uk-net-zero All throughout history, fossil fuel industry has had the biggest influence over many areas of government policies. But let's be truthful, it is Tesla the company who sent the letter for mandate on lorries and EV subsidies from people buying ICE cars. Meanwhile, ICE manufacturers do the exact opposite lobbying: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/business/uk-government-set-ease-electric-car-sales-targets-carmakers-2025 https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/zev-mandate/ Swings and roundabouts.

Looks like fuel gage to me: MAN Lion's Coach | GO Group Virtual Wiki Disclaimer, I've no knowledge of buses or coaches. Just seems rather strange no fuel gauge in a modern vehicle.

I just installed a UPS (uninterruptible power supply, not the parcel company) and dedicated wiring between machines last night. It covers my Home Assistant machine, switches including PoE security cameras and NAS at a different location. So even with a power cut, where Tesla Powerwall takes ~5s to switch over, all my smart home wouldn't be affected. There was an attempted burglary at a neighbour's house a few weeks ago. They removed/cut an outdoor light, in doing so, their whole house power tripped. So even if thief trips my house breaker (this is the regular house consumer unit fuse box, after Powerwall), with UPS, my security system will stay online for long enough to capture enough footage. Hum. not sure that amount of degradation is correct. My panels from 9 years ago are warranted for 20 years maintaining above 80% output, it's monocrystalline. I thought most warranty are 20-25 years and pretty much all guarantees above 80% generation. But you are correct that they do degrade just like EV batteries. However, I've not noticed much degradation in its generation over last 9 years, for example, first whole year 2016 generated less than in 2022. There's more variation with weather, a few good days in summer will make up the difference from degradation. Actually, just like EV battery, these degradation warranty is potentially difficult to prove and claim.......