Recent content by Bam Bam

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.

I'm sure the price has come down as these things get more common. I got this added when the car charger was put in. Didn't want to be stuck with a non-working potential backup system and regrets during a future power outage. We shouldn't get power outages in Didcot given we are in the middle...

According to an internet blog post I just read an oil burning boiler will use about 0.9kWh a day so not nothing but also not a huge amount.

Rolfe already had an expensive system that has a backup power option built in. Why add an extra, separate, technology?

Which option did you go for? I went for the one where you have to manually switch it over, so I'd have to go outside. It isn't automatic, which would be more convenient but that was much more expensive to add and I'm hoping not to have to use it often, all being well. Oh I see - you've got...

It was bodywork after a prang. Brake pedal seems strange but it works fine so I guess I just got used to the very different brake action on the hire car.

Perhaps after all this ordeal you'll appreciate the car all the more?!? We got ours back from three weeks at the fixers recently and it is nice to have it back on the drive.

A reduction will happen at some point, so don't bank on the current rates, but I'm not sure we are at that point just yet. Most likely when there is sufficient grid scale solar capacity to provide for the country. These solar developments are taking a long time because there is such a big...