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Yeah we've got at least two discussions going on in parallel! One about home batteries and one about Intelligent Octopus Greener nights changes. The theme I suppose is that both are related to the cheap overnight tariffs and making the most of these.

Maybe just destroying the competition with low prices like Leapmotor and other Chinese firms.

If it is such a simple software fix then why can't they just do it ASAP and hand it back to you fully functional?

Was that a question to me? We've got the 9.5kWh. Have realised it takes nearly 4 hours to charge within our 5 hour charging window there would be no point getting another big one. However, another smaller one might be worth it, like a 5kWh. It would be useful for Summer when we sell off...

I had assumed our metal bowl (a key bowl made of old keys melted/soldered together) would do the job but it seems not. Perhaps because it didn't have a lid on it.

I thought you were going to say you'd just left the car unlocked! We got one of those faraday boxes after realising that you could open the car by pressing the door button!

We are on Octopus Go. We've now replaced our boiler with an air-source heat pump, so run one of the hot water cycles during the cheap overnight. The heat pump also doesn't let the house go below its 'set back' temperature which we have set at 18 degrees, so it does a bit of work overnight...

I have a '23 reg SE with tinted rear windows. Must be much older than the registration date!

In fact the previous owner had already turned it into an EV much earlier, but the old motor failed when he took it on the freeway [motorway] and the battery was old so he had to replace them.

I am also too lazy/busy @Everest

I've seen these listed on autotrader. £99,000 and it doesn't have a particularly large battery! https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?channel=cars&make=RBW&postcode=OX11%207SL&sort=price-asc Meanwhile this guy is just DIY converting an old one...

I subscribe to this podcast and listen avidly so I no doubt heard it when it came out. This is the discussion I was referring to on hydrogen for long term storage... Leibreich is well known hydrogen bubble burster/sceptic:

You are right to be sceptical about hydrogen. People like the idea because they think it saves them from having to change from their hydrocarbon ways, but it is not that simple and it not at all appealing. It will cost a fortune and has been used as an excuse to continue burning fossil fuels...

We aren't quite the 'lucky country' like Australia, who have both wind and solar on tap seemingly all year round (at least in South Australia). Instead we have wind for most of the year (though less in the Summer) and solar for a few months. So we will need to install lots of solar but it won't...

Especially because there is a rumour that with an extra battery and a software update the Givenergy systems like ours might be able to output at higher rates in the future.