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Had a potential incident today thankfully averted by the automatic door lock feature. Not an attempted car-jacking, mind you. Parked up at the local shops and a young woman skipped up to the car and tugged on the back handle. Luckily for her it did not open because our dog does not like...

I should be clear I haven't tried doing anything like this. Here is the Givenergy cable. https://coolenergyshop.com/products/givenergy-battery-cable-for-gen-1-to-gen-2-or-gen-3?srsltid=AfmBOorpqWEt0FRl8F0ziYsVuW-hC_ar5VHA2B9hKInyfP6vkgB_qYDz I guess you could get one of these and connect it up...

I think the mini and metro that I used to drive got very low ratings even then, let alone now. I'm genuinely lucky to be alive given how stupidly I used to drive as a reckless teenager.

Wow, that is a lot of storage. Nice to have, but presumably you've got three phase in order to charge them all simultaneously? Nice. Yeah, the general aim is that you make a bit of money (as credit) in the summer, and save money in the winter and the overall outcome is that you have no bills...

I think Givenergy use proprietary cables. So you'd have to bodge their cable and convince the system that it had another official Givenergy battery. My guess would be that Givenergy will only work with their own batteries and if you tried to plug anything else in it just wouldn't do anything...

Perfect example of the value of this forum/site! Thanks for sharing. 😊

Tim and Kat have been musing on this question after suffering a power cut. We have pretty much exactly the same set up as them, except they already bought an extra battery (so they have 14kWh to our 9.5). They might get a cheap second hand battery off a fellow you tuber.

Ours from AliExpress is still working.

I guess the thinking is that the resident should pay something towards it because they get the benefit, and spending scarce council resources on EV owners isn't a priority That use of public funds is the issue, even if increasing EV ownership in general is an important priority to improve air...

Soon enough MG will pay you to take it off their hands!

Is it because they will continue to 'maintain' it as long as you pay? Also - if you don't pay the license fee do they fill it in so you/future residents can't use it any more? That would be crazy.

There weren't many of those sold. 2nd hand examples might be hard to find. One in Scotland for under £16k but otherwise cheapest are £17.5k...

The next Dave "Just have a think" Borlace video will be about some recent findings about sodium batteries that suggest that more developments are possible. It will be out on Sunday.

Just economically. It is a push in terms of the closeness to the edge of the roof but just about do-able. In terms of voltage, 10 would work on a string, but it sounds like they would need to match the existing panels. They didn't even consider doing that number. I had to force the installers...

Yes, that was my first thought and that was the first quote I got. A bit of extra generation would save the battery from getting depleted during the day and it would last a bit longer. Roof option Unfortunately, it would be very difficult to add panels to our roof now (we've got 2 arrays of 8...