7C Kwh but only for what 4 hrs ?
4 hours is enough to use almost 60kWh on a standard Irish 12kVA connection. That's 22MWh per year, or over 7 times what an average Irish home uses in electricity 😁
So you charge your car, heat your water, run thirsty appliances, heat storage heaters and of course charge your battery so it will provide the juice for the other 20 hours of the day...
First time hiring an EV as a rental, found a free 'slow' charger in the hotel beside me.
There's a bank of chargers in the office I'm visiting will find out what's required to use them tomorrow.
XC40 is a well put together solid car, 220 miles on the guessometer when I picked up at 100%.
Did you book through an EV specific rental company, or one of the big ones and they gave you the option?
Sussing out route/charging options for the summer. The address of this SuC made me smile.
No, I usually book with National because you can grab any car you want from specific lanes and then they just check you out as you drive out.
I just grabbed this as I wouldn't be doing big mileage.
It's an interesting condenser but not sure why Tesla would be interested in it.
Haha, Diesel Lie Big street 😂
Sounds like desperation, the company that brought out the first modern mass market EV is now so far behind in the EV race they're risking extinction
Question for anyone using the Supercharger network in a non Tesla EV, do you still need to register an address in that country?
If travelling between several countries (e.g. UK and France) does that mean you need to change your address when you cross borders? Does it work instantly or is there some verification required?
No you don't need to change the address. It works instantly.
Do you have to bring it back with full battery like you do with a full petrol tank?
7 x 4 is 28 Kwh not 60 Kwh ? even 3 phase 11 Kw wouldn't give me 60 odd Kwh in 4 hrs ? that wouldn't do an average commute of mine although not going to site every day now so happy with that's 28 Kwh, it would probably work most days but it's still bad form cutting the off peak to 4 hrs.
You'd need Unkel's power station to take in 15kW into a battery.
Think he meant all electricity use not just into a car
maybe he'll donate some panels lol.
maybe, yeah.
Lol. It's not even about the panels at this stage. It's about batteries and inverters. If you have 15kW of inverters and 60kWh of available batteries you can draw 60kWh in 4 hours. You can include 28kWh-40kWh for an EV or two aswell in that 60kWh depending on what's plugged in.
You probably would make more money buying a rack of batteries and inverters, and acouple of panels so you get paid for NC6 metered export, than you would doing like I did and going full whack into panels.
Tbh I've kinda lost interest in adding more panels as it doesnt pay me to do so. Once the metered export starts (I'm still on the trusty MCC02 day night non smart meter, so getting non metered export) I may revisit this. Ultiimately I may go down the unkel route, even get a 16kVa connection for that higher MEC and make money from having the esbn cable connected.
No not maybe, that's exactly what he meant, standard 12Kva connection etc.
I've donated many panels to friends, several recipients are renewable energy forum regulars 😀
@ELM327 - I mean draw in total, storage is only a fraction. In my own case I usually use my 3 hours of 15kW draw as follows:
7kW car (I have 3 EVs)
5kW battery
2kW hot water
1kW other, like dishwasher / washing machine / dryer
Anyone can do this with at least a 15kWh battery, this is not as big as it used to be, you can buy the cells for €60 + VAT and shipping and you need 16 of them, plus €100 for a BMS, buy a second hand hybrid inverter for under a grand and your entire setup will have cost well under €2.5k. You don't need any solar panels for this to work
If you use 45kWh per day, and buy at 5c instead of say a 24h rate of 25c, your annual saving is well over €3k
I don't actually know, I hope not 😂
Yeah if I could get V2G/V2H I'd be more keen on keeping the id3, such a waste really, probably be years too before the cost of the system comes down to affordable levels.
Do you still have the Model S ? I think the last time or there about I was on boards you had got a brand new battery off Tesla ?
We're collecting a brand new EV tomorrow from the dealer and forgot to ask about Motor Tax, do they help us apply for it or do we need to do that ourselves, if so any ideas on the procedure as I can't find anything relevant on https://www.motortax.ie/
When you get the logbook in the post there'll be a flyer probably from the tax office about how to pay your tax. You'll probably be using digits from your VIN number as a pin.
But you don't need to do anything until the ownership paperwork has been done.
Bought another one a bit over 2 years ago, facelift model with FSD. An area I am very interested in.
I think you deserve the title Mad_Lad ! lol.
Dealer will tax it for you before leaving, as far as I know they're obliged to have tax paid before you drive away. Now you may have to pay for it yourself on the day but it will get done. It's 120 euro for every EV
@funnyname The dealer won't tax it for you. The log book won't be posted to you until you tax it. You can do it online using the last six digits of the chassis number as the pin number, the future pin number will be the last six digits of the logbook. The dealer should explain this to you during the handover. Don't worry it's straightforward to do online.
That;s the UK practice, not here
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