Aspman

Yep Octopus Intelligent Go Ohme 7kW charger (supplied by Octopus) VW ID3 I was wondering if I should just remove the car from the Octopus app and let the Ohme carger deal with it.

Parking the whole EV Vs ICE thing. Why are the apps with the cars so bad? I had to install of update three apps to get the car to charge at home. All I want to do is plug it in and have it charge during the cheap rate at night. The car app, which only sets a % limit not a time. The charger app which sets a % and a schedued chargin window but then changes the times and does wierd scheduling due to 'network demand'. The power company app which also can set % and and end time but not a start. What I'm getting is the car app constantly alerting through the night because it's not happy with what the charger app is doing. The charger app set to go to 80% but only got to 77% today but won't say why The power company app moans that it can't talk to the car, and flags an error that 'something isn't quite right' but only 5hr after the car was unplugged. why do they make it so hard to just plug the damn thing in and charge between 23:30 and 5:30? This is after the car was supplied with QR codes for software which all had broken links, the setup which failed each and every time and needed to be repeated 2-3x for each driver. Not to meantion each driver needing an account to make the car work properly which itself involved an unholy (and I'm sure quite unlawful) personal data grab. Plug in charge on timer. Get in turn key drive off. Why so awful why.

21st even

Charger now connected. Car scheduled for 12st

It's not the stuff that smells really odd and not nice is it?

I've no issues with a fair retest at any age. TBH why not retest every 10yr, doesn't need to be the full thing just a brief drive around with a qualified person to check you're safe and a few questions to cehck you're not mental. Drink drive limit can never be 0 because naturally your body produces a little bit, some food contain a tiny amount (apples for example) and testing below a certain level is unreliable. TBH the current levels are ok I think. People who are a danger are way over that or drug driving which is likely a bigger problem these days

It's all Octopus other than the DNO who is SSEN. But since everything was clearly labelled on the fusebox which they asked for a picture of in the first place they could have raised the issue right at the start to get DNO signoff rather than at the point of connecting up the cables after he's drilled through my walls. So yes car back on assuming the order wan't cancelled. I've not heard anything tbh. Next week's chase.

Annnnnnd after submitting some more pictures and a video, incidentally exactly the same pictures and video I was asked to supply at the start of the process, apparently this time it's ok. No load test, nothing done on site just two months of delays to review the same information again before the same fitter comes back to finish the job he started in August. No one does bureaucracy like Britain!

My dashcam is getting old, still works but the software doesn't work on my new phones etc so checking footaes always requires the card out and linked to a laptop. I was thinking things must have moved on in the last 5yr. What is decent thse days?

SSEN got in touch. "we have reviewed we need more information. We'll be in touch" Pretty much sums it up. Email from Octopus, "how did we do 🙂😐🙁 please give us feedback". [cracks knuckles] Well let me tell you........ Shame it was just a smiley and a one liner

Apparently it's all with the DNO and on their timescales now which are unknown. Octo EV told I will wait until charges/penalties are about to kick in then cancel the order if the charger isn't approved, unless Octopus agree to wave all fees and penalties in the event of the charger being rejected.

Heatpump runs 24/7 pretty much but it's only doing full load for hot water and that would be early morning same as car charging but pretty much nothing else. I've pushed for an answer but no answer so far today. I can can car for free at the moment as I have no fixed delivery date. I've told them no answer by Friday and I'll push to delay, no delay and I'll cancel the order until the charging situation is resolved one way or another.

they might refuse to install at all, but the main issue is no answer until it's too late and either it all works out or I've a car that's no use/rejection fee to look forward to.

And Octopus seem to think I'd be keen to pay to put in 3 phase. Knowing where the nearest supply is I think it'd only cost me about £250,000. Suggested alternative being to use the local gstation, 1 mile away, no pavements and 47p kWh 4hr minimum. So drive down and pick the car up every 4hr. Or a 3pin plug which isn't recommended.

Going off topic but UK govs like to talk market then shaft us when the station builders then demand (and get) guaranteed pricing per kWh. "The market" shouldn't only apply to consumers

It's octopus all the way. They supply the car, the charger and the leccy. Fitter turned up in an Octopus van. We have heat pump which might be why we have the 100A. We've actuall got 3 electric showers. We have one in the garage, as said stupid number of bathrooms but we'd have got nothing back by removing one. I agree that the price of leccy is the big blocker to green energy adoption. It's stupid if not immoral to try to push people onto energy that is 4x as expensive as what they aready have and arguably less suited to the changeable british climate. However..all going ahead I will get an EV charging rate of 6.5p kWh for 5hr a night. At that point it starts to make sense. If the UK woud invest in infrastructure and not allow the energy shareholders to milk us dry, if we could supply leccy at gas prices then suddenly heat pumps etc will start to make sense and you'll get universal adoption, zero carbon in sight immediately. But the chance of that is 0%.

the installer turned up last week and stared putting the charger, he ran the cable all the way to the fuse box then.... How many electric showers do you have? We have 2 (house came with a silly amount of bathrooms and we spit the showers half electric half mixer). And you cooker is electric? Yes we've no gas. And you heating is electric? Yes we've no gas Ah sorry the potential load is too high I need to get it signed off. At no point before this did anyone ask, "what electrical appliances do you have in your house?" they only asked for a picture of the fuse cuboard and a video of the location for the charger. We've the max 100A domestic supply so upgrading isn't an option. started making enquiries about canceling the order.

Sold my old man's honda jazz through motorway, got about £2000 more than a local non-franchise offered and about £1500 more than local Honda. Motorway took it down about £500 from the initial temptation price based on a few scratches (they got quite confused about it not having alloys) and it sold for that to another Honda dealer further south. No argument on collection, guy didn't even bother to test drive

I have the CTek charger, easy to use but it couldn't tell my battery was duff.

Profit margin? If their salesguys are given targets to sell EVs that's what they will do.

Indeed and that's what loses me with EVs. I'm getting one but purely as cheap transport. I love cars, I've always loved cars but what I love isn't just performance it's the noise. The noise of my dream car isn't an electric whoosh, it's the grumble of a big block 70s American V8, or a Ferrari flat 12 at full chat. It's also the smell, the smell of oily bits and fuel is special thing. And the enginering, I appreciate that there is a super engineeing in these electric motors to make them powerful but I don't find it intersting. I find big bits of metal flying around interesting, turbos, superchargers, Victorian beam engines, ship engines etc etc. I still like mechnical watches even though digial is cheaper and more accurate. I'm not agains EVs but they'll never tickle my interest like an Aston Martin V12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MndoKnIMMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvwNXNJqg3U

Indeed, was no skin off my nose it only being 10min away and he immediately considered me a straight bat and didn't challenge anything. win win. P.S. the car was completely and truthfully listed and has no issues other than it reeked of dog.

Common in Glasgow he said. I assume they hope that because the buyer might have come some distance they will take the car anyway rather than have wasted the journey. Never underestimate how stupid and greedy people can be. Most live in their own little worlds these days and probably genuinely think they did nothing wrong by taking photos of another car. The chap that took my Dad's car didn't even take it for a test drive. He was friendly towards me anyway because I'd offered to pick him up from the local station which he appreciated. Said he knocked £300 off a car the week before just because the guy left him hanging 10 miles away with no taxis and laughed at him for being stuck.

To the OP, yup sounds scammy. Especially the fake urgency. To add to the Motorway comments. I sold my Dad's car through that and got about £2000 more than the local dealers were offering. No hassle at all. Probably helped that the car was reasonably good condition and was going to a honda main dealer. I've heard some bad tales about Motorway but you can refuse the sale and as long as you have not misrepresented the car Motorway apparently Motoway will sanction the dealers for mucking around if you complain. The driver who collected my Dads car did say that he had seen the reverse as well with sellers using pictures of other cars to list theirs, bit like catfishing. https://help.motorway.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/4515953597980-Will-the-dealer-try-to-change-the-sale-price-on-the-day

It's a 2019 JCW. So nowt like a hybrid I'm afraid. 30mpg if you're lucky