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I am on Octopus "economy 7" - that system uses UTC time and therefore I need to change the charge time on my car to 1:30-8:30am and I have to reset the Growatt battery charging as well. I do not know if you are using other tariffs if the same issue applies. If you have HomeAssistant - you can...

This is what I do when I do a long journey: 1) Set regen to minimum 2) Drive at 63mph on adaptive cruise control and enjoy the journey. Travelling faster massively reduces range and time saved travelling is lost recharging! 3) Research chargers and make a hard copy printout of their locations...

I did the calculations and decided that I can charge the car on the granny charger and be prepared for long journeys. You then use public chargers when you are more than 150mile from home anyway. So having a home charger costing £700 alone is not worth it. If I really need a charge I can use a...

Yes - it has to be conquered. My problem was 2 non-working chargers and one phantom one that did not exist - then I just had to get home without any further diversions. The journey was 68 miles home from there and the car had 60 available - so it was 40mph home and we made in spite of the 2miles...

Same issue, sadly the stress for me is not worth the pleasure of using the car, so using the Prius instead. Already suffered from a journey where I only just got home with 1% battery left, at 19mph top speed with a queue of cars behind me! That last 2 miles is not available

Only just made it home last night. The charging points in the car navigation system seem to be phantom installations. I gave up diverting to try to charge up and limped home going at 19mph up a hill. This was the return journey and we diverted 3 times to broken or non existent chargers. Prius...