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Many have commented on the lack of 3 Phase support on the NACS connector but fail to say why and this impacts across Europe and many other countries which have not adopted the US Standards for power distribution. Fundementally we have 220-230 volts per phase and three-phase distribution staggers...

Thanks for that feedback John. I did a similar experiment with my condensing gas boiler last winter. I don't have any inbult means of temperature reading the flow and return of my Worcester boiler and so I fixed the sensors of two inexpensive digital thermometers to the flow and return pipes as...

I know some people are scared of this 24/7 principle but check out Heat Geek on Youtube and you'll see why that principle works. It's a mind-shift just like it is when you move from ICE to EV where we have a shift in thinking of 5 minute forecourt stop with ICE to 6 hours overnight EV home...

This is not just a Tesla thing although EVM does drive a tesla check this out he also looks at other EV's it is not a brand thing.

I have been on Octopus Intelligent for the past few months and it has worked quite well for me. But my daughter, who has a First Gen ZS EV is currently on GO and wants to switch to Intelligent when her contract ends later this month. She has an OHME charger. Has anyone experience of using the...

I had a Quote for £14k from I forget who now because there was no way I was paying that last year and in January the provisional from Octopus was around £10-11k for 11/14 kW ASHP after the full 3-hour survey and heat loss calculation. Last week another reputable provider (the one who did the...

I've had a full and I mean full room by room heat-loss survey done on my house so I won't have some salesman (no offence I used to be one) try to pull the wool over my eyes and the upshot is that my house fitted with an 18 kW gas boiler has a 4.7 kW heat loss with -2C outside and +20C inside. It...

I suppose that rather than "forcing" everyone (which be honest is an urban myth) to have a heat pump it would be cheaper and better for everyone to carry on burning gas and oil and give away free silver foil sun shades a fan and dingy for when the sea rises to flood most land masses. What ever...

Interesting. I looked at Tepeo but since it can only store 40 kWh from your off-peak overnight charge and last winter despite extensive insulation I used up to 130 kWh a day Gas and average winter day 70-80 kWh I figured it was not for me. I will have my Heat Pump fitted hopefully very shortly...

It strikes me that yesterday (1/8/2023) evening's BBC 1 programme on Heat Pumps needs a fair bit of fact-checking too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0fzltvd/what-they-really-mean-for-you-series-1-2-heat-pumps

I think it is just as much a distortion to look at the rapid drop in used EV values in 2023 as it was to look at the non-depreciation in EV values last year. My 1st Gen red ZS Exclusive see pictured in my profile I bought in 2019 and after several months I took delivery in Jan 2020 just before...

None of us can fail to have noticed the kickback against EVs and the move to more sustainable motoring with countless misinformation stories run and re-run. Is now the time to kick back at the EV Kick Back, Fully Charge Show and FairCharge think so. "Misinformation about Electric Vehicles and...

Twenty years ago I moved into a new build house by a small developer and tried to move my E.ON Gas and Electricity to my new home which had gas central heating only to be told there was no gas connected despite many attempts to convince the supplier that I was heating my house and hot water and...

My EV runs on electrons not British or any other national Gas

I always ask immediately after making the reservation by messaging the host explaining that I have an EV and saying each host has a different policy and what would be their policy if I were to hook up for a few hours overnight and of course I would be prepared to pay. The chances are that they...

I've just had both my SEG export confirmed at last at 4.1p and IntelligentOctopus Day rate of 42p off-peak 23:30 to 05:30 at 7.5p all within 2 days. The SEG application was made about 2 months ago while I was on OctopusGo and therefore I wasn't eligible for the higher ExportOctopus flat rate...

No, it seems that Octopus first put all customers on the standard variable traffic then customers go through the change tariff process to onboard to the special tariff be it Go, Go Faster (which is now closed), Intelligent, Flex or whatever. I'm currently in the process of onboarding to IO from...

Be careful when your fixed Go ends. Mine ended mid-December 22 and I notified them that I wanted to continue on Go a week before using the online tariff selector. I even got the confirmation emails. But when my fixed term ended I actually was migrated onto Government supported tariff then in...

21% drop for Off-Peak EV Charging !! I wonder if the mainstream press will run stories on EV's Cheaper than Diesel and Petrol cars? I doubt it! I'm glad that with my EV and Go plus a 10 kWh battery storage plus running what I can on overnight timers in March 97.5% of all my grid electricity...

@Ayoull My apologies I have somehow posted my comment on the wrong thread. I had intended to comment on a thread concerning charging to only 80% and in which the statement in effect had been made that MG had with the 1 Gen ZS had designed it to cope with being daily charged to 100%. Regarding...