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I stop manually as well, but only after seeing a positive charge rate appear in the app, at least ~3kWh. Just takes a few seconds, I found if I stopped manually immediately and before a charge rate registered it appeared to adversely affect a schedule appearing. If a schedule ever doesn’t...

My Intelligent Octopus Go fell over today, got an email saying I needed to reconnect car with new virtual key. I'm in the process of also moving gas to Octopus so it may be due to background tinkering because of that or it may just have been a coincidence as all was good last night. Either way...

It always tries to send me to Gatwick, even though Winchester is MUCH closer. Whenever I’ve had a mobile visit they’ve always come from Gatwick as well.

Not specifically Tesla, but you may find someone local suitable here… https://hevra.org.uk/

Anecdotally, when driving in low regeneration mode I don’t notice any appreciable difference in range or efficiency though I accept that in the way they work these things out for quoted figures it probably does have an impact. Using something like sentry is far more noticeably impactful to me...

I wasn’t aware of that unfortunate change, guess then the only option would be to do the full on brake stamping routine every so often.

Not sure if it makes any difference, but I’ve taken to going to low regeneration mode (when I remember) during or after rain so that hopefully when the car sits afterwards the discs are less inclined to rust. When the car had its second MOT at four years old a week or so ago, having a chat with...

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/05/15/heres-the-inside-story-of-why-elon-musk-fired-the-entire-tesla-supercharger-staff/

As mentioned it’s quite possibly a fly or, as was setting mine off occasionally on one occasion, a spider. An air conditioning cleaner bomb type thing from the likes of Halfords will also rectify if it is a bug, with the added bonus of leaving the car smelling sweetly. They’re not expensive, I...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/speeding-tesla-drivers-police-elon-musk-uk-b1157386.html

I passed through Rownhams Services south side earlier today and there are Gridserve chargers going in, at least three, not yet operational.

I stop mine manually after plugging in and as long as a schedule subsequently appears it then follows said schedule fairly consistently. If a schedule doesn’t appear for whatever reason and I know I’ll need the charge for the following day, I just switch the Tesla app to a scheduled start time...

Personally I don’t have any automations linked to Octopus or Tesla so no idea if they may be causing issues for you. Not sure if anyone else may have experience…?

You just need to read the comments here to see that it’s a field day for those that are against EVs in general and Tesla in particular. Musk is now little more than a liability. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68935522

“…who don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” to resign.’ I assume Musk will be falling on his own sword imminently?

This prompted me to look in my app and I see I got the bonus points on the 24th. Nothing in the post yet either, intrigued to see if anything turns up.

Made me smile :)

Saw one in the flesh at Goodwood last month, it’s a very smart looking car…

Happened to be at Port Solent yesterday, there’s certainly zero indication of anything happening any time soon in the area described in the planning application.

That’s interesting, might get one! If I do I’d use Velcro as, a) I have some already that sticks well to plastic (from Amazon), and b) it would be moveable if desired.

Wasn’t aware of the shortly no longer available four hours parking option mentioned in the opening post, might have come in useful on the odd occasion. That said, when I do park in London I usually use this site and book a spot somewhere convenient beforehand… https://www.yourparkingspace.co.uk/

I am looking forward to increased spacing between EVs in car parks, should hopefully stop door dings and the like.

This has now come up on Martin Lewis’ Money Saving Expert… https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/electric-vehicles/#need-10

Why do you think I mentioned the film…

They pretty much made a film about it… Starship Troopers.

In my experience if you don’t precondition, as you’re charging the car will probably tell you it’s also warming the battery as it charges. So it’s probably swings and roundabouts, either way some energy will be used to warm the battery. As far as charging speed is concerned, I tend to think...

No, the utterly batsh*t wipers are I think due to them being directly connected to the mind of the Chief by Neuralink.

Just to echo the above, I’ve also had the situation where it gives the error message but it has actually started the charge. The one sure thing with me is that the charge doesn’t start instantaneously, it can take a good few minutes. Try giving it a little time and navigate to a different area...

Took a look at both sides of Rownhams today. On the north side are the six not yet working Gridserve chargers where the line is, plus a single 50kWh charger and a couple of slow (7kWh?) chargers where the two x are. On the south side interestingly there was a row of bays blocked off with metal...

For a while Tesla did have one of their ‘coming at some random quarter date in the future’ markers at Rownhams on their own Supercharger locations map, but it disappeared some time ago. There’s probably mention of it earlier on this thread somewhere, perhaps it’s a hangover from that.

As mentioned a little further up by @HCassidy, all that’s been built EV infrastructure charging wise to the best of my knowledge is the six not yet operational Gridserve chargers as indicated on plan below plus just the one I think currently operational 50kwh charger near where X marks the spot...

Just got this from Black Horse… “We’ve received your request Dear Customer We’ve received your request to check if there was a discretionary commission arrangement on your motor finance agreement with us. We’re experiencing a high number of enquiries at the moment and it’s taking longer than...

When I plug in I’ll give it a few secs or so, till I see a min charging rate of ~3kWh start to show on the Tesla app, then manually stop the charge. Usually a charging schedule will then be created anywhere from immediately to within an hour or so. Often this will appear as a notification on...

I’ve had occasional similar issues. My default in such circumstances is totally remove car from app, log out of app, force quit app, log back into app, go through process to connect car again. Either by accident, design or coincidence it usually seems to resolve things here.

That was happening to me whilst using phone as hotspot. On returning to house phone wouldn’t reconnect to home WiFi automatically, had to be manually selected. Currently using the car’s connectivity again though as it seems to be reasonably robust…

Email sent to Black Horse also.

On Money Saving Expert? I'm interested in this to a degree as over the past seven years I had two Ducati bikes on PCP financed by Black Horse. Looking at the relevant part of the MSE website just now, which says it's up to date as of today, there's currently no mention of Black Horse in the...

https://where-is-tesla-roadster.space/live

That sounds like the issue I had, changing password on Tesla account resolved it. Assuming that works for you, you’ll then need to reconnect phone as key if you use that and re-authenticate anything else you have connected, such as TeslaFi.

Yup, that’s the process I went through earlier.

The issues I mentioned a little earlier seem (fingers crossed!) to have been resolved by doing just that, resetting Tesla password and then re-authenticating Octopus, (plus TeslaFi and Phone Key which also needed doing post password change).

Moved to the new API this morning and had full logging on first drive an hour or so later. Interestingly though my intelligent Octopus connection has failed and currently won’t reconnect after deleting the car and starting from scratch again, am guessing that could be API related. Will call...

My connection has fallen over and, having removed the car and then attempted to reconnect I’m now having the same issue. Thought the connection failing may have been due to the API switch, having just reconnected the car to TeslaFi for the new API, but that’s just an uneducated guess. Have...

Possibly try logging out of then back into Octopus app and also possibly a two button reset in car. I’ve done that in past if enjoying such issues and they seemed to resolve after so doing, though of course it may have just been a coincidence. On at least one occasion also ended up deleting car...

I’ve used a couple of private spaces via Your Parking Space in Greenwich before with no issues. Having a quick look on said site throws up this underground car park in the Greenwich area… https://www.yourparkingspace.co.uk/locations/show/4294947027

Interesting idea to see them repurposed this way, though the article doesn’t suggest what rate of charge they would/could deliver. Hopefully the trial is successful… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67873890

IO scheduling some charging outside the 1130pm to 0530am window is normal behaviour, albeit somewhat weather dependent, and on the occasions it does you get all electricity you use at your property at the cheap rate. Always worth keeping an eye out for.

Just got my renewal quote for the house and contents in mid January… a 60% increase in premium being asked for along with a list of excuses/reasons why. I’ll hit the comparison sites in due course, will be interesting to see if they offer no meaningful like for like solace as with the hike in...

Occurs to me Apple Music arrived in the holiday update last year, Apple Podcasts this year… maybe Santa will bring full fat CarPlay next year :p

I had a failed IO charge last night for the first time in a while also.