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Looking shiny! Nice car for someone to get second hand. Good luck with the new motor. Feel free to let us know how you get on with the famously efficient 'windknife'

Absolutely! It isn't free. Well, it is free to produce. But using it means you miss out on credit. As an economist might say, it is an opportunity cost.

31.24kWh for us today. Here is our fondant fancy.... I think maybe something weird happened around 8am and something got postponed into the next period. Just checked and it was a bit higher yesterday at 31.7kWh. The first days over 30kWh this year! Only on the 7th of April had we produced...

There are different versions of this complaint: Inability to generate the required amount, resulting in brownouts Inability of local grids to cope with increased power throughput The answer, it seems to me, is just grid upgrade planning, demand response (variable pricing) and batteries...

I think given how unlikely this is to occur outside an MG dealer/event context it would be worth at least 10,000 trophy points. I don't expect it will happen without something dodgy (pre-arranged meet-up or AI).

Jan Rosenow appeared on the Everything Electric Podcast talking about his latest research in this area. Other people who make interesting, sometimes provocative, points on the efficiency of the energy transition are Michael Leibreich and Mark Z. Jacobsen.

How much would they charge for a BEV version? Would it be more or less than this?

If they've limited it then you're fine. Hopefully it means that the inverter will last longer, though I suppose there is a worry it might not start up as quickly or something. You can check the differences between the start up voltages for both types on the spec sheet. Sometimes it makes no...

Pasta bake for us, with some garlic bread.

Welcome to electric ownership. We were the same two years ago (apart from ex-demo rather than new). I tend to stick to around 65 on dual carriageways as it is good for range but doesn't add much time. Same as ICE really. Try not to regen too much on the motorways for efficiency - keep it...

Fantastic! Nice. Wow - did the DNO approve that? Or are they going to have to de-rate it to 5kw? Does it offer 10kW discharge from the battery? That would be very hand for backup purposes! :D Even if it is 10kW only during sunny times that would be great. This can take a long time. In the...

Yes, it was "I'D WATCH that," rather than "I'd watch THAT" as in you should (short for "I'd watch that if I were you"). English is a fantastically vague language.

EVs will get less and less wasteful over time as well. Wind, hydro and solar energy waste negligible amounts of energy in the act of producing energy (virtually no heat exhaust). Power plants that turn turbines with steam (gas, coal, nuclear), end up with a lot of hot air exhaust that needs to...

I think that mentioning green hydrogen and e-fuels are instructive. It is possible to create these products from (surplus) renewable electricity, air and water and make a fuel that powers motion. The losses involved are absolutely staggering and so it makes absolutely no economic sense...

Might want to contact mental health services and get checked out!