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V2G would be great. Smaller/thinner would help especially on UK roads

I’ve been trying to charge using OVO charge anytime this eve and the app won’t update to show the car is plugged in, and CA can’t communicate with the car. LTE showing fine in the car. This happens regularly and usually the night before I need to get a good charge for a long journey :) Sod’s Law!

On a lease yes, but for contract purchase you're committing to purchase the vehicle so it goes down the same as an outright purchase (commitment to pay) - despite the fact you can cut and run instead of paying the final ballon payment. A business lease would be treated differently

With absolutely no offence meant to the Prius, but the Taycan is incomparable as a touring car in every way. Enjoy the trip in the Taycan would be my vote :)

For those in the uk on ovo charge anytime, we’ll need to renew because CA relies on communication with the car to set profiles and schedules and read the kWh charged

we are yeh, I think we get 11p per kw for export so it’s not wasted, and in actual fact it’s better to charge the car at 7p from the grid and export the excess solar, but in an ideal world we’d be able to store more in batteries

Here we are right now - dumping in to the grid despite the batteries not being fully charged, due to the inverter maxing out at 2.49kw in to the batteries. Frustrating!

I didn’t do enough research, so I let the solar company guide me. They only ever mentioned a 3.5kw inverter and I didn’t really think anything of it. What it means is that the system is hamstrung at peak generation and has to dump any extra on the grid - it’s a first world problem indeed but...

The inverter is the bit I understood least and now wish I’d pushed for a 5kw. On our 3.5 we frequently end up, even in winter on a sunny day, exporting to the grid where the batteries only charge at 2.5 max and the house isn’t using the rest. I’d have thought that you (@Nickj) would be able to...

From what I’ve read here and elsewhere, the answer is not to worry. Enjoy the car, charge when you need to and don’t panic about battery Longevity. Early data suggests they’re more robust than you’d think

Here’s Dec and Jan this winter - it works out a little below 4kwh a day. It does vary - the graph below is mid-Dec to mid-Jan and some days are nothing, others not too bad On the other hand, in the summer it generates more than we can deal with so we end up dumping a load in to the grid. This...

During the winter we get barely anything - ours is south facing with no shading but on many days there’s no generation at all. The shorter days in Dec/Jan are a write off. It’s only this week that we’ve started filling the batteries again each day, but it should now be like that until October...

Yeh we already have 7.4kw solar with 7.6kw of batteries. I got a heat pump quote recently and it was £9297 AFTER the government grant, and estimated savings of £70 per year, making it over 100 years before we make our money back! I was shocked, queried with with the company (heat Geek) and...

I have a similar setup to you, but no heat pump (currently quotes are showing a 132 year payback?!). I use OVO and Charge Anytime, so car charging is 7p kWh, and I tend to use grid-only for the car and save all the solar and battery for the house

Ionity at the chippenham motorway junction is usually fast, but busy. After that, Exeter is good and they're building a new charging hub in Cornwall I believe. Sorry for lack of specifics - I'm doing a similar journey in July and when I looked it was all fairly easy (I'm similar - rarely...

It's not always accurate anyway - going through a 20mph village the other day I had a nice red 100 sign on my dash :) would have been hard pressed to reach anywhere near 100

Good to know it’s not just my car - have you guys had the recent software recall update? I didn’t bother to book mine because my nearest dealer is over an hour away

Has anyone had this before? Yesterday the nav started my regular journey telling me I’d have 70% battery left at destination. Usually I can increase this a bit by driving carefully, so I didn’t think much of it as it started to tick up to begin with. I even commented to my wife how awesome my...

When I went through the process it made clear twice that my car is already taxed until June and that, unless specifically asked to do so by DVLA, I shouldn't proceed. I always try to keep on the right side of the tax folk so backed out.

I’ve had the same email but my new standing charge is 64p, and my unit rate is about 0.4p under yours. Frustrating because for 8 months of the year we don’t use any grid electricity at all (which I suppose is why they’ve whacked my daily standing charge up)