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Thanks, I believe they moved the CT clamp from protected load to the meter tail. I then need to ensure the V2H CT clamp is positioned correctly myself so that one battery wouldn't drain into another. I'm sure I can work everything out myself. It'd be fun

TBH the problem, as he is well aware when choosing this vehicle, is driving quite long distances in a short range EV. I've had and once a year still do experience this (for MOT). This hugely shrinks charge point search radius. So even if charge point not suitable, going to plan B may mean it's the final destination and usually not worth it. So need to wait on the phone to sort it out. With longer range EV, public charging is rarely a problem. After 2 hours, if this rest stop can't charge it, simply drive 1 more hour to the next rest stop.

Really simple to renew tax for 12 months: 1. go to https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax 2. select I have V5C 3. Enter info (reg and V5C numbers) 4. Check detail page will say: "Your vehicle will be taxed from 01 August 2024 Are you aware that your vehicle's current tax is not due to expire until 01 October 2024?" (for my Leaf) 5. Click continue. Done, new renewal date in August. Start date 01 August 2024 Duration 12 Months Vehicle make NISSAN Price £0.00 6. Final screen: "12 month vehicle tax for vehicle registration DS64 xxx valid from 01 August 2024 £0.00" Due to pre 2017, this Leaf ZEV (as well as ultra low emission diesels) are only subject to £30 VED. So I don't care much about its renewal date.

How has it been wired up to achieve that in bold? Is it just a case of having the sensing CT clamp at the very top mains and having EV charge point in the non-protected port of gateway? Yes of course, together with package is Tesla Gateway 2. GivEnergy have similar called Giv-Gateway. I have now obtained G99 for 14.5 kW of combined export for my house, not sure where the number comes from. If I were to switch to SEG (metered export), and next grid DFS (Octopus saving session) I can export over 7 kWh in an half hour slot, worth up to £28. The electricity would have been bought for 58p if 0% were from solar.

Giv-AIO was my 2nd choice. But their website recommends a canopy as minimum when putting it outside, didn't want to do that. It is also a bit thicker than Powerwall, doesn't look as sleek. Local control of Givenergy products are great though, where as Tesla requires going through their server. Just like cars, no perfect product. Conversional wisdom is to put EV charging on unprotected side of home battery, reason as you said. But I plan to put it just after meter for everything, as you have sussed out. Power cuts are not frequent and draining is not big problem, and sometimes I may want to charge EV from the batteries. For example Tesla's drive on sunshine feature https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-features/id/1392/first-look-at-tesla-s-drive-on-sunshine-feature-that-will-charge-your-tesla-with-excess-solar-energy But due to Leaf V2H, functionally I will only gain EPS during rare powercuts and zero grid draw/export when Leaf isn't here. It's like an expensive toy for me 😅 Due to having V2H, ROI on battery will not be good.

I'm getting Tesla's brand new Powerwall 3 One of first batch of customer shipment arriving later this month. Thanks to 0% VAT introduced in February. Price have come down quite a lot. 13.5 kWh of storage capacity, installed outdoor with Tesla's well established legendary thermal management and BMS. Headline 11 kW discharge power to power the whole house. Whole home emergency power supply, meaning everything in the home continue to work, including solar generation and Leaf V2H. With Leaf 18 kWh usable battery, there's 16 kW of discharge power and enough energy capacity live normally for 3 days in darkest winter and 5+ days in summer thanks to solar. If a Tesla Cybertruck rolls up, I can combine its 100 kWh to power my house for weeks. Similar tech hopefully will come to regular Tesla cars in the future. Re VED. The introduction of it is in April 2025. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introduction-of-vehicle-excise-duty-for-zero-emission-cars-vans-and-motorcycles-from-2025/introduction-of-vehicle-excise-duty-for-zero-emission-cars-vans-and-motorcycles-from-2025 VED is valid for 1 year. Therefore, getting a valid VED in March 2025 for £0 would effectively mean one more year 0 VED. Everything is done by the book, only time will tell if this loophole gets patched.

Already done it back in March for my Sep 2022 car. Now renew date is March 2025 for £0 instead of Sep 2025, saving 6 months of VED. It's as simple as going on to gov VED webpage and taxing the vehicle for £0. No need to SORN it.

Bikes! I'm putting my money on bikes, because looking back it's the only one that prevails throughout history. We can only learn from history right?

Simply jump in the Tesla and drive. Car works out where I need to charge if going longer distances. But human occupants needed a break before planned charging stops so just look on sat-nav screen and stop at next supercharger. Tesla supercharger always works flawlessly for me, has never failed to charge for me. They starts charging at fastest car acceptable speed on plug in every time, zero faffing about with apps/cards. Tesla's price for Tesla vehicle or those who pay monthly sub is also very, usually 30-45p outside 4-8pm. These days, apart from using Tesla network, I only have Electroverse app and RFID (with Shell recharge as backup). Honestly, I have not had any problem since started using Octopus Juice (subsequently rebranded to Electroverse) and applying 6 minimum charger filter. Just ignore locations with few chargers. Although a bit more expensive to charge but it's a very rare event to needing worry about pricing for me. During my 1500 miles trip busy late May bank holiday, zero time spent waiting for car to charge. See the thread I posted: When renting a Tesla at Portugal, charging at Tesla supecharger were included in rental price. Also can return the car empty. So only spent a grand total of 10 minute at supercharger. 5 days only cost £180 to rent. Cheaper than renting petrol and having to return fully refuelled. For easiest and best EV experience, I still think a Tesla is the way to go. They can now be had for under £15k. If public charging is a rare event, good EV's are available for £8k (Hyundai Ioniq).

Home electricity meter is replaced every 10-20 years. Meaning the electrical companies (whose profit margins are on the line) deem high enough percentage of meters retains ability to measure within tolerance for over 10 years. On the other hand, how often do fuel pump require recalibration? Again, different tech, different approach is needed. Common sense is to go back to first principles and think what is actually required.

To replace the Zoe or your hybrid? Is there periodic testing for home electricity meters? Are electricity meters known to go out of cal? Different measuring device, different ways to go out of cal, so different requirements.

My first port of call is Electroverse RFID card. The charging location may not be accurate on the app, but Electroverse has so many partners the RFID works most of the time. Even CPS is now on Electroverse. But there's report of RFID only working after 4th/5th try. May not work if charger has poor mobile reception. Only big 2 not on Electroverse are BP Pulse and Podpoint for me, so I tend to not bother with those 2. I'm in debt on both accounts, apps no longer on my phone. Shell Recharge RFID is another card that is accepted by a lot of networks. Worth signing up for free and having in back pocket. Came in useful in Portugal at the hotel chargers for my friend who didn't rent a Tesla. The rapid charging hub at A1M Stevenage is coming along nicely: (my photo from a plane, visible to the right of motorway) TBH public charging is easy now and improving at staggering pace. Price may not be competitive though. Need more destination charging points like these. This very long off-peak pricing is reasonable and allow overnight parking for full charge. Wording is precise and on point. "plugged in vehicles only" https://www.speakev.com/threads/east-lothians-mature-and-reasonable-pricing-for-ac-chargepoints.186257/?post_id=3641741#post-3641741

Indeed, it has achieved what it's designed to do. On personal impact, it would be hard to estimate. I mean, I decided to sell off my 2013 Skoda diesel partially because of it. It only costed me £50k...... of course, cheaper options are available, I could have swapped car with my parents, driving their 2008 Volvo petrol and not incur ULEZ. (though at cost of more CO2 emissions) If we don't estimate, is there an identical city with identical residents/visitors without ULEZ that we could take measurements from?

ULEZ outperforming expectations. 6 months. TfL has exceeded their own #pollution ambitions:- 📉 Nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from cars = 13% lower than projected (if the scheme hadn't expanded) 📉PM2.5 exhaust emissions from cars in outer London are an estimated 22% lower https://www.london.gov.uk/media-centre/mayors-press-releases/new-data-shows-mayors-ulez-expansion-working-better-expected-bringing-cleaner-air-five-million-more

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I'm guessing the point is don't do domestic (short haul) flights, take the electric bus or coach/train: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49349566 Also, don't drive ICE car by yourself. 😛 (why is Eurostar so low?)

According to Eastbourne airshow organisers, only 3.7% carbon emission comes from the display aircrafts. 96% comes from audience transportation..... for example ICE cars. https://www.visiteastbourne.com/airshow/plan-your-visit/sustainability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politicization_of_science Truth of the matter is that opposite views to climate change and net zero are exactly "financial backers of them can reveal some dubious links to huge global companies with vested interests". This has been proven time and time again as evidenced above. "Sometime into the future" will be too late. It's like we know the house is burning, but we sit around and debate useless things like "is it burning", "may be we can stop the burning using some asbestos, that asbestos seller backed thinktank says so", "we shouldn't use water to put out the fire, it's an elaborate con set up by the neighbour to get water for their plants" As I said before, not here to change people's minds. I'm just pointing out the bleeding obvious, in this case previous history and facts.

Clearly your opinion was made up and asking for "factual" check on it was a bait. Sorry I fallen for it. Your counter points are mostly valid, similar to the article, factual but not the whole picture, None of those methodology flaws I stated are curved balls, just pointing out plain simple logical flaws with the article. If you don't like it because it is different to your views of reality, then I'm very sorry for your distorted reality. After all that, I still have not seen your question that you allege I missed. Your original question was "can you confirm if this article is factual or not? " Answer is yes, in a selected stat designed to fit the headline narrative on a website based on selling petrol. Although it is interesting regarding the PHEV, where does PHEV sit within the table? I would have thought it sits in Petrol but obviously a website named petrolprices may view it differently.

Seems factual, a survey result and some averages. What do you think might not be factual? But on the other hand, there's clearly lots of selective statistical representation at play: - The (unrelated to headline) survey had ignored existing EV owners by only asking about switching. A different question would get a different response. - EV insurance price compared to diesel is 30% higher. Article elected to ignore price difference to diesel for the headline. Diesel is 18% more expensive to insure than petrol according to the article. - It is always more expensive to insure a more expensive car. On average there is more cheaper petrol vehicles on the road due to EV's being more expensive to buy in 2010's. Similarly diesel being more expensive to insure is also probably due to typically cheapest small cars are not diesel. This is just how statistical average works. Always think critically, factual is not the main problem here. I can go out and get completely different survey results or different insurance results using different methods, both are still factual. Inspecting and think critically about methodology is a basic scientific skill.

In my opinion, you over estimate cost of charging and waaaay under estimated cost of labour. All returns need at minimum a few hours of clean up, that time would charge sufficiently for next rental. Charging is a matter of plugging it in whereas refuelling requires someone to do the legwork, away from their usual duties and pay for their time. This is another case where flexibility of EV charging (not just 1 speed at 1 price) and lower cost means need a paradigm shift in the way we think about refuelling the car. EVs when not being rented can also be used to make money: Octopus Agile is the UK version. https://octopus.energy/smart/agile/

Directly answering your question because you asked: No. I never look to pick a fight. But I also never ask pointless questions that try to sway people's opinions, such as or pointlessly compare apples to oranges: As always, if there's nothing factual I can contribute, or never been directly asked, I never hit reply.

Look, I'm not here to argue and try to change your opinion. Fact of matter is, Europcar I saw and experience is much better adopted for EV in every way than Hertz that was reported. It is not the first time businesses (in this case Hertz) were unsuccessful in adopting new tech through ridge policies, subsequently facing financial losses.

I believe that is the case for Hertz. Hence worse than expected take up. Requiring 80% SoC on return is pointless ICE thinking. I'm not at all surprised at their EV losses due to their poorly thought out policies. Europcar seems have adopted for EV rentals (on-site charging, local charging advices and lower return SoC requirement). Apart from Tesla specific things (OTA updates, app access), they seem to be offering a very good service. The Jeep Avenger rental require returning at 50% was easily done, charged to 100% at hotel, then drove to and around Faro during the day, hand the car back in the afternoon. If I rented a non-Tesla, I would not have any problem public charging using Octopus Electroverse. Problem only arose for them because they didn't had a quick look at charging before picking up the car. Preparing and getting a good roaming RFID card in UK would have solved the rapid charging issue. I'm not sure if it's right needing rental company to provide local RFID cards when a large portion of charging cost is time based. End of the day, charging is not going to be an issue for any existing EV drivers.