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If you think about it, domestic heating using electricity uses the electricity mainly in the day when demand is higher. EV's tend to charge at night when the demand is low, so converting from gas heating is going to have a big effect on grid demand.

Good timing with the weather as well. Welcome to the solar club. :)

Since Saturday, I have put 26kWh into our EVs. That's along with charging the PowerVault and heating the hot water.

Not just where they are burnt. Check out the Niger Delta.

I have just got an email from BG with the final bill for the few weeks I was with them before it transferred to Good Energy. It only took them 5 months.

I'd watch that YT video. A driving instructor asking it to do an emergency stop . . .

A flash of the lights is like the sounding of the horn, it's to let other road users you are there, not to invite other road users to proceed. :LOL: A driverless car would have to abide by the highway code of the country it is operating in and be able to pass a driving test.

No, I think you hit the nail on the head there. Why use the electricity to make a product to move a vehicle when you can just use the electricity to move the vehicle much more efficiently. It's similar to the hydrogen fuel cell idea. Waste a lot of energy splitting natural gas into hydrogen...

The problem arrises when we try to compare apples to oranges. Disregarding the e-fuels nonsense, petrol and deisel can only be produced one way, that is by getting it out of the ground and refining it. Electricity can be produed a number of different ways coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar...

In my head I'm still in my 20's. I just wish my body would believe it. 68 in August; and apart from a couple of creaking joints in my thumbs, feeling good.

Well done for naming and shaming Drive MG WSM. They are my local dealership and I happily travel 30 miles to Bath to use Islington MG. Drive MG wanted to charge £50 more for a service, AND, also charge for another technician to install the Tesla update. Avoid at all cost.

I don't usually agree with Michael Moore, but this one ain't bad.

Andy EVM has posted a couple of videos on solar.

Andy EVM has posted a couple of videos about solar installs.

Oh yes. Hyundai Ioniq, my first EV. Turned the key, thinking it would unlock, but the lock is electronically activated, which makes a manual key a complete waste of time. Fortunately, when I tried the manual key a few hours later there was just enough charge in the 12V battery to trip the...