Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
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gunner
Interesting, I work in commercial real estate and my experience is quite the contrary. Solar panels and their energy savings have been shown to attract tenants, drive rents and make assets more liquid. We take into account capex, opex and valuations of course.
Obviously not going to work in every scenario.
Definitely with tenants. They won’t be interested in the aesthetics.
Home owners of a modern house where solar panels are almost part of the house design; I agree the would be a plus point too.
Not sure about period properties though, and as mentioned some of these overnight tariffs are so low that by the time you have charged your EV, washed and dried your clothes and used the dishwasher, you don’t have huge daytime consumption when the leccy price is high.
As also mentioned if I didnt have 9.5p/kWh for 7 hours per night, solar panels would be much more attractive, especially if you had to pay the 30p/kWh capped price for the whole 24 hours.
60-70% of my leccy consumption is now between 12am-7am. More, if I start driving further and charging the car more frequently.
When I was paying standard 30p/kWh, only 20% of my leccy was used during the night.
This is what the Government wants. There has to be some demand for the leccy from the windmills in the North Sea when everyone is asleep.
Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
Apparently they also have to have an expensive gearbox service at six and ten years too.
They certainly look tempting right now though.
Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
You need to consider how much you are really likely to charge. If you are doing frequent journeys over 200 miles, perhaps it’s not the car for you. Most of the time you will want to keep it between 5 and 80%, so a typical max charge cycle of 75% (60kWh). With a home charger that is 8 hours - so an overnight will be OK. Max charge rate is 110kW. On a DC charger that is about 30 minutes. That is not a massive inconvenience if public charging infrequently (YMMV).
The only issue with the AMG line is that Apple CarPlay or Google Auto is a £300 one-off payment. That’s robbery, particularly for wired(!) CarPlay.
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Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
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Lazydonkey
I'm maybe late to the party but i've just moved to intelligent octopus and it seems a bit of a no brainer. All the discounted overnight tarrifs i looked at upped the day rate to compensate and, as we don't do huge miles, it wasn't always worth it for us.
Intelligent octopus doesn't do that, it's the standard day rate and then 7.5p overnight. It also communicates with your car and decided when it's going to charge based on grid load etc etc etc. I assumed it would need a smart charger but it's working on our 3 pin to our i3s.
Very very clever and worth a look
https://octopus.energy/smart/intelligent-octopus/
If you don’t have a compatible EV charger, the Octopus smarter tariffs don’t work with a lot of cars, mine included.
Octopus can’t communicate with Google Automotive platform (or maybe Google doesn’t let them), so I can use it on my 2023 C40.
Although the earlier 2021 C40 on the Senesus platform communicates fine. Go figure.
You have to wonder how the world is going to be decarbonised when a simple Computer Say No means you can’t use some charging tariffs.
I am using E.ON Next Drive tariff at the moment. A very long 7 hours (12am-7am) and relatively cheap (9.5p/kWh) unit rate works for me.
As I charge on a granny cable, I value length of the cheap overnight rate, rather than saving extra pennies on the unit rate.