Electric car & Solar PV owner/advocate & YouTube contributor sharing my opinion Loving the freedom & Independance an EV brings when running on solar power

Norwich, England
Joined August 2018
503 miles advertised range but from 112kwh usable battery, nearly twice the size of our Kia Souls battery These big EVs don't seem to be improving they're just getting bigger
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2 inches of rain and our village is cut off again as it is every time is rains enough to fill my water butt The rains not the problem , changes were made to the water infrastructure and it's well... not worked @AnglianWater Usual numpries in petrol cars getting stuck
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FREE ENERGY and we're waiting like Lemmings to flick the switches and consume lots of energy .. But how to maximize it? What can I use now instead of later? How do I stop intelligent GO from charging my EV early? Lots of brain 🧠 power being consumed to play the energy game 😱😲
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I booked a free energy hour from @OctopusEnergy today but there's too much solar so I didn't use any at all😞 It's a shame we can't have more options for FREE hours , in the cheap rate perhaps, time when the suns not shining so solar homes can participate and be rewarded
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Hmm...Hyundai cuts Inster EV price and drops popular extended range version whilst removing heat pump and V2L Sounds like a spec drop not a price drop, less desirable now😞 Ioniq 3 launch to blame? Adjusting the range 😉 share.google/RWrvFDe9lqsBrtv…
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Anti solar folk love to quote alternative "investments" that could've made better returns so.... How big a portfolio would I need on the ftse to generate the £5k after tax savings I'm experiencing? I'd need to invest £145k Solar is a bargain😉
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And the solar&heat pump bashing season has arrived like geese squarking on a pond trying to be loudest Squark all they like but those that embrace going electric and have zero energy bills know better 🥳🌥️⛅
That’s cool - you understand then that there won’t be any “excess solar” or “top notch energy recycling in Nov-April👍. Who pays you to push this stuff ?
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EV ads with weird sticky up static hair and heat pumps in the front garden don't seem to be great ads to me Wish the Interactive Investigator penny dropped ad had been used for going electric instead Has the penny dropped with your family yet? Go electric , it's better
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Imagine how cheap our energy/fuel is going to be when the Iran war ends & the Hormuz strait opens 🤞🙏🥂 Super Elmo Nino thingy too , we're going to have record wind and solar 🫣🤔😉
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I've moaned about companies offering DSR event cooperation without adequate reward Not @MixergyLtd No games or almost valueless points, it appears Mixergy are offering the greater share of the event value to their customers 💷 Definitely worth trying 👏
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No no no @OctopusEnergy I schedule a 40% charge ending 530am and get 2300-530am 6.5 hrs I amend the schedule to 20% and it starts charging now at 1130am till 4pm 🫣 Where's the common sense with such a significant change in the matter of 39 minutes
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And now back to morning hours, give me strength @OctopusEnergy consistency and reliable schedules IOG needs to be something we can trust
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Yes I know it's cheaper energy right now but it was cheaper energy 30 minutes ago too my issue is why does kraken change its mind so radically when it knew today's prices and energy supply a long time ago
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Have you changed how you charged your EV over the years ? I just realised our last 100% soc in the Soul was April!! We're relaxed about range & charging now yet when we started in the Kona I used to charge to 100% on solar all the time
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First charge scheduled with the @OctopusEnergy charge cap but it looks a bit odd, just 2 half hour slots which is no where near enough for the requested charge . Had a full 5 hours last time Bad message perhaps, bad schedule maybe or something 🤔 I'll keep positive and trust🤞
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So @OctopusEnergy gave me 22% charge last night not the 40% requested. The thing that annoys me is the changed schedules aren't available in a log file to see what happened or why I guess autonomous systems like to keep their decision making hidden
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Octopus say it's due to the car being left plugged in which is sort of true but I did unplug and replug in as I know the zappi keeps count as one session if you don't . I'm confident it'll fix itself tonight and charge ok
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Filling my car with sunshine 🌞 definitely feels like I'm putting 2 fingers up to the oil companies and market manipulators
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Top 6 all sensible small or medium cars Is the SUV and Crossover fad coming to an end? Oh I hope so 🙏🤞😉
Used car sales in Q2 2026. People still want Fiesta. Shame Ford stopped selling it. 🤦🏽
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33 thousand pounds...... For a Corsa Are Vauxhall nuts or are there really people who think it's a thing to consider 🤔🤷🤯 Maybe it's just me 🫣
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