Random EV thoughts.....

Dunnes doing a special offer on aluminium foil this week as well.

"typically" is the appropriate word there.

The Leaf had a glaring hole in its security where anyone could communicate with any Leaf (turn on heating etc) anywhere in the world by simply knowing the VIN of the car, which is displayed on the windscreen so easily scraped.

They plugged the gap once it became known, but companies quite often dont take security seriously.

Now is around the time when I'm gradually reducing the rate at which my battery charges at as I might only need it to be at ~40% by 8am when my day rate period starts to have just enough in it to get me to a time when the panels start generating enough to cover the house load and also start charging the battery, but as its going to be my first solar summer with a smart (day/night) meter (so metered export) and given my export rate is €0.21/kWh, and my night rate is €0.17/kWh, I'm thinking from an economical point of view I should still be charging my home battery to 100% every night, and doing all my car charging, and clothes/dish washing during the night rate as well thus maximising the amount I export the following day because for every kWh I continue to use the previous night, is a kWh I will export and earn ~€0.04 on the next day... but from an environmental point of view I'm thinking I should screw that 4c saving and try to use as little from the grid as possible!!

As I type this my Eddi just kicked in beside me here, so the battery is now full (from 42% at 8am), 2 clothes washes and 3 dishwasher cycles have been run, so I've just ran down and plugged in the car and it's now charging at 2.3kW, which will give me roughly 4.6% an hour.. or 15km/h of range.. and I should get at least 10%-15% in it today.

I like saving money but I also like driving around on the sun and using it to wash and cook things.... total mileage today will only be 5.2km, so I end the day with more range than I started the day with.. and I like that. but I also like saving money!!

Yes use the night rate. Somebody else is using what you are generating and its better overall for the environment as you are balancing out pressure on the grid.

In your case with 17c import and 21c export, the 20% or so round trip losses of storing night rate in your battery and then exporting to the grid during the day, kill any profit that you may have. Plus put unnecessary cycles on the battery and use on the inverter.

In my case with 5c import and 25c export, it's a different story!

My electricity company pays for all the fuel for all my 3 EVs. For all my hot water, for some home heating, for all my home electricity and then they give me a couple grand in cash on top. But you rather pay for your own? 😉

plugs car in, car charges.

/fin

I actually had to put diesel in my BMW about 2 weeks ago (first time in about 5 months), and it was horrible... took me ages to wash the smell of diesel off my hand!!! and a bit of a shock too when totting up the weekly finances to see a €50 debit from a petrol station!! would hate to see that every week!!

This. even though my attic is converted, I still had to climb into a press thats full of **** (theres a fcking boat up there!!) to change the inverter settings, but since getting Solis to give me remote access to these settings via the app it's been game changing... I can adjust it in seconds via the app, so if I know the next day will be a sh1tty day, I can set the battery to fully charge..

3kWh/6% already in the car...

How many months left on the 5 and 25 rate.

Did you add to your array since I was last here ? what have you got in total ?

I wanted to install 9 Kw/p for around 8K last year but the boss said no, of course if I want to pay for it all I can go ahead lol, we split the bills as it is so in reality it's not costing a lot. I get free work charging, granted these days I don't have to be on site every day or for a full day but I get at least one trip or more for free.

Night time tariff is 22 c/Kwh, I know that's a lot more than the 7 c I was paying when I had the leaf and i3 and I know there are cheaper tariffs but I'm waiting for further reductions.

You'd think that anyone on a smart plan can get cheaper energy when the wind blows regardless of time ? why should they benefit with free energy and we not ? they're making a killing since the cost of gas went up so much and they get Taxpayer subsidies.

Anyway, if I needed a full charge 73 Kwh @22 C/Kwh it would cost 16 Euros and average efficiency is 18 Kwh/100 Km since I got it so average trip would get 330 Kms and that's not driving slow.

Lets compare to a diesel that gets 5.5 L/100 Kms = 18.18 Km per litre needing 18.13 Litres for 330 kms costing 32 Euros so yes the gap is a lot narrower now between electric and diesel compared to a few years ago and we all knew this was going to happen, but it signifyingly reduces the cost savings of EV over Diesel considering the cost of a new EV.

I have good roof space for south and west so the lad that came out said house is ideal, but the network needs to allow more solar on the grid, one of the neighbors has solar PV and I'm on the same transformer and I heard that it can be problematic connecting another house to the same transformer for feed to the grid, I don't know it never came up because they didn't have solar at the time the lad came out to see the house and give a quote.

Since getting the solar installed (Oct 21), I've pretty much done about 99.98% of all clothes washes, and dishwashing in the house, because since getting solar I've managed the absolute féck out of it all to ensure maximum usage, minimal export/waste...(knowing when & when not to use certain appliances etc..) so if you were willing to do a bit of domestic graft, it could be a major selling point...

Between what I've generated (and used) and earned in deemed export last year, my system (€8,800) is already 50% paid off after only 2yrs, 5 months.

It's a 2 year contract, mine started last September, so it ends September 2025. Not that contracts mean anything. If you can get a better deal somewhere else, just jump and pay the €50 fine. Last time I did that, it paid for itself in a week.

Interesting none the less.

Id be more thinking from the point of loading all EV Chargers at the same time that they’ve managed to hack causing fuses to pop further back the line which could cause outages in larger areas.

This could be all BS of course.

This is interesting, I wonder will it have a lower than around 7,000 Euro price tag compared to the last V2G EVSE I saw ? can't remember the make and model of that.

https://wallbox.com/en_ie/quasar-2-bidirectional-ev-charger