13A sockets useless for charging electric cars?

[Andy Bennet]

a) don't need to. b) less charge cycles = more battery life (not that that's a real issue)

[whisky-dave]

I'm not sure that is true, depending on the battery type and I'm not sure what it is with cars sometimes a cycle is 0 to 100% and a 50% to 100% is half a cycle not a whole cycle. Otherwise trickle charging would be a really bad idea, and your battery useless after a couple of weeks of trickle charging.

[John Rumm]

Because the evidence would suggest he manages to avoid being right with a very high degree of reliability!

[harry]

The plan is to use heat pumps instead.

[harry]

A down side is your brake disks can corrode through lack of use.

[harry]

Modern gas power stations are approaching 60% efficiency. I don't use the car every day. I mostly use it in the morning. So there is ample scope for charging off the PV. I still get paid for the electricity.

So, what's not to like?

[harry]

You really are brain dead.

I don't know anyone from Latvia BTW.

The RR is quite cheap to run. No road tax, no MOT, insurance £86. Increase in value offsets petrol costs. (Almost seven litre engine).

Not a very good drive though.

It's as car to arrive in and be seen in by the peasants such as yourself who are unaware of the costs. ie cheaper to run than the car they drive.

[Andy Burns]

There's no guarantee the RHI makes an installation break-even over 7(?) years, it can make it more expensive rather than cheaper compared to "normal" heating methods.

[Dave Liquorice]

Which puts a hefty load the local substation that then catches fire or the protection trips...

Most DNO's are pretty quick at isolating a fault and rerouting the distribution to bring people back on supply within an hour or two. They'll connect temporary gensets to any "islanded" parts of the distribution if the fault is going to take a while to fix. "A while" is probably less than 12 hours as compensation kicks in at £70 per supply after 12 hours and £35 per 12 hours after that (ish, there are variations depending on number of customers, < or > 5,000, and if the outage is due to bad weather or really bad weather).

The only people likely to be off supply for more than a few hours are those connected to the same section of distribution as the fault. As we were for 36+ hours a few years back.

[charles]

we were only out for about 15 hours until a genny was brought in - reconnected at 2am!

[Theo]

I don't want to dissuade you from trying to load balance, but the battery in a phone is about 10Wh and up to 40Wh for a tablet. If a delta of 10p between E7 rates (the lowest tariff in a recent search was 13.5p/10.5p per kWh, which is only a delta of 3p), that's saving you 0.1p for the phone and

0.4p for the tablet.

I know every penny counts and all, but...

Theo

[Andy Burns]

New video on EV charging from mikeselectricstuff

[harry]

The purpose of dedicated chargers is so that in the future, they can be separately metered and taxed.

[Andy Burns]

Sounds like openEVSE is a good thing then ...

[whisky-dave]

and it is Klingons !

and uranus rotates at a diffent angle to most planets so you may need to wipe in a differnt direction.

[dennis]

That could be a problem as none of them have any means to do so. Who is going to pay to replace them with ones that do?

[ARW]

Wonko The Sane (HHGTTG) would have something to say about that.

[John Rumm]

The answer might be yes, if there were very few filling stations, and the queue to get in one during the day was 40 mins.

[charles]

It's certainly what people did when there was a tanker drivers' strike.

[Steve Walker]

For the last couple, my car was full, as was my wife's, my kit-car and three cans (one an illegal 20l one).

SteveW