Recent content by HolbornBlue

Octopus Go or IOG. Tesla has improved the efficiency over the years so it may now be 200W. The point is, it’s not trivial sums of energy or money. Crudely, to get 300W, I left Tesla Sentry on 24h and calculated the change in SOC. Google will corroborate.

Good but not a panacea. Tesla’s system keeps the whole car computer running to record. 24/7/365 @ 300wh = 2.6kWh per year (or £200 odd in electricity). The Tesla system introduces gaps between recording files and sometimes at inoppertune moments (problem being car insurance if that happens to be...

OP, can you clarify ‘burnt-out’. Burnt-out: Can’t see heat damage in the pictures. Tripped: If both have an electrician check the earthing arrangement. Also check the pins on your charging cable, Try a different cable. If black only, try lowering to 16A on the charging screen in the car and...

Tesla AutoPilot is definitely better than the MG4 but I hated the deactivate, reactivate and bing bongs to change lane.

Devils advocate: you go for the annual service. The agent says they will do the latest updates. You decline. Sign here please. 3 months later lane keeping has a wobbly (plenty of stories on here) and the car totalled or worse someone is injured. Discovery and disclosure, the loss adjuster has...

If you don’t update the software then your car insurance may be invalid. E.g. Allianz Section 13 Policy Document