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In the past, the peak rate of IOG dropped but the cheap rate stayed the same. I expect this is what will happen.

... except for Cybertruck. (at the moment)

I have emailed them a couple times asking for them to be able to control the Powerwalls. They always said "no plans". Does the new API allow control of Powerwall parameters, then?

Well, it's a fine balancing act. They are still a commercial entity, after all.

Fair point. I suspect it's still probably worth is. There are plenty of days with very significant differences between the "cleanest" and "dirtiest" hours. Today, for example, "clean o'clock" is about half the carbon intensity of "dirty o'clock".

My gripe with Tesla is nothing to do with Mr Musk. I honestly can't jump into the hate-everything-he-does camp that seems so popular these days. It's the ergonomics, the lack of stalks, the absence of buttons, the changing UI, the auto-wipers that don't work and all the usual gripes I've had...

This is not always necessarily true, especially outside of the winter months. I have noticed that there have been multiple occasions when carbon intensity was greater overnight (when I'm charging my batteries) than during the day (when I'm injecting power into the grid), usually because of the...

Well, it costs you nothing to export. In fact, you can export at twice what it costs you to import, making self-consumption not a great idea currently. On top of that, you can use your battery to make a tidy sum over the winter Saving Sessions. Seems like a no-brainer to me ;)

Really? Crumbs, I didn't know that. Thank you for the heads-up! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Well, I got three points on my licence few months ago. Renewal time should be interesting 😕

Touché 😄

Why would I go to Telford? 😉😄

1%, 57X impact We should be given a badge ;)

I dare say there will be a fair number of “one percenters” who contributed to this thread ;)

I wonder if they'll just absorb the costs for lifetime subscribers...

So I just got an email from Octopus with a summary of all the stats for this winter's saving sessions. It would appear that Shrewsbury was the area where the most savings took place! I wonder who else has been squeezing their batteries around here ;)

Or outdated and obsolete software heaven. Everything stays as it is. I know the car's foibles and can predict and adapt to its behaviour. The screen information remains where I know it was. Nope, I'm good thank you ;)

Straight from the Microsoft-in-the-90s rulebook ;)

Yes, this would be for those of us with battery storage. I suspect IOG has saved me a good few thousands.

Not at all. It just doesn’t fit everyone’s usage pattern. Not trying to be unkind but it sounds like you fell for the marketing and failed to adequately investigate the product before buying it (as you indeed admitted to in your post). As @spooksman mentioned above, the trick is to try...

Even the courts can't get a hold of them. What hope do us plebs have? 😄

I've either had too much or not enough to drink. Thoroughly confused right now...

Have you checked behind the steering wheel? ;) (I'll get my coat)

Wow, wear and tear after a year? How often were you checking the oil level??

If he wants to, he will. The key is that he now knows what product (or the promise thereof) he is buying and how likely he is (or not) to actually get it in a reasonable time frame. I am not entirely clear as to the intent of your post, if I’m honest.

There is a certain feeling of liberation now that I know that my car is no longer a glorified changeable software platform on wheels. It's obsolete now, so hopefully it will remain what it is now (minus a few safety tweaks here or there) and I won't have to keep "learning" a new software and its...

Not had any of that and, quite frankly, can do without crappy tat all the way from China to just end up in an incinerator or a landfill.

Errrr…. Why not? Octopus has pretty much the most generous export tariffs for those of us on Intelligent Octopus Go (15p/kWh)

And here you have the crux of it…

Really? That’s great news but I think I must have missed that. Is that a setting somewhere?

If you see clipping it should be an inverter issue. Also, I have had mine cleaned for the first time after 4 years and it seems to have improved performance somewhat so if yours have been installed a while ago it might be worth considering that?

My array is East/West facing and it works just fine. Slightly flatter but wider curve so in the end it may it be THAT much less than a purely south facing system.

I see what you did there…. 😄

This is hardly a surprise. I always thought it was a Musk statement rather than a well thought-out product but it's still early days so who know what will happen? There certainly seem to be a very vocal bunch who think it's the best thing since sliced bread... 🤷🏻‍♂️ Indeed, although Tesla is...

You may be right but although that margins will almost certainly need to be lower, the market segment is huge. The risks may be significant but I think they would probably be reasonable ones to take. That said, he did go for a very risky product with the Cybertruck, so it seems Tesla is not that...

Better not be, I’ve been exporting as much as I can, which would ruin my “savings” calculations… 😄

I actually would be more inclined to think that most rich people tend to not spend vast sums of money on depreciating assets and probably drive older cars. The obscenely rich (I'd say net work over 100million) excluded, of course.

You need to remember that you're in a UK subforum and your experiences are very different to our own. There has been precious little progress in FSD's performance over the last 5 years over here. We're most certainly not seeing anything like what you're describing. I guess it makes sense for...

Not ever having had FiT, I suspect ir brings an element of predictability. There is nothing stopping octopus from reducing their Outgoing tariff back to 4p/kWr next year (I'm convinced it's only a matter of time). Also, if you have deemed export then you can "double dip" your solar production...

Why, buy it if it suits us of course! It's odd, your question seems to imply that this is somehow an ideological persecution of Tesla and these people are getting "revenge" against a company they now hate. Maybe that is true for a minority. In my view this is simply consumer protection at...

Thought about it but the current Loyal tariff is just under 6p As I tend to be fairly risk-averse, I don’t think the uncertainty is worth it for a couple of pence per kWh, especially when I have moved most of my energy usage to electricity.

The blurb on the Tesla website says you can't have a site export limit (don't think it mentions import limit?) I have no idea why that is, but explains why the option isn't available for me. Then again, with current Octopus export rates I wouldn't want to anyway. Makes more financial sense to...

A lot of what gets posted on here is opinion, not fact. Some are more grounded, some are just guesses. @Zilla91 can be a tad provoking sometimes but I see no reason to go straight onto the offensive. That said, thank you for posting those links. They come from Teslarati, though, which isn't a...

Why would you accuse someone of “trolling” like that? Are you based in the US, by any chance? I don’t agree with @Zilla91 on his opinion there but it’s a perfectly reasonable opinion to have.

That's quite a short term view. The only way to fund R&D and to invest in order to make future products is to make a profit on the current ones. Tesla are still very much in the early stages of the life cycle and have high capital expenses to build factories and buy equipment so I think it's...

This was a really interesting read, thank you for that I meant storing in the summer the gap between what we produce and need in the winter. Sorry if I wasn’t clearer. I probably have an overly simplistic view of it and the storage requirements may not be as big as I think, especially as more...

You’re preaching to the converted! Mind you, when you account for devaluation and the “EV insurance premium” it may not work out that much cheaper. The insurance “discrimination” against EVs will eventually ease off as cars become cheaper and repairs less expensive. But it’s definitely a problem...

This was an absolute stroke of genius. I’m sure Tesla (and maybe even EVs on the whole) wouldn’t be anywhere as prevalent today if they hadn’t had the foresight to sort out the charging infrastructure with such a good network so early on. Agree with the rest of the post and strongly agree with...

Do most of their stuck-in-traffic journeys include passengers in the back seat, though? (Honest question, I have zero knowledge of traffic and driving patterns in China)

I think you’re being about as optimistic about solving The Storage Issue as I am about solving The Thorium SMR Issue. I seriously suspect that storing the amount of renewable energy required to get us through a whole year is much harder than sorting out molten salt reactors. I really don’t know...