You must be Performance, then, rather than Long Range.That must be a record marathon session then
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Someone just pulled up at my house expecting to be able to charge - because of google?
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Charging stations will be installed to local dogging locations soon
Bantam
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I used to live in a place where it wasn’t unknown for random people to park on others driveways. Not to steal electricity but just to have somewhere to park.
It never happened to me but it would be a toss up from blocking it in and not releasing it or having someone tow it to some random location in the Scottish Highlands. I never did quite decide which I’d prefer
M1tch
2021 M3P with EAP
Once the car has had a recharge, then you need one too.That must be a record marathon session then
My charger is scheduled to not start charging until 00:30 so people could plug into a dead cable if they like while I'm out.
I guess if this becomes an issue of random people charging up off others chargers someone will come out with one. Just not sure it’s been identified as an issue yet.
The riff raff that would likely do this still don’t own or can afford an EV yet. Still I think it will probably be pretty rare.
Maybe actually once more cars have the ability to act as a battery for a house, you can reverse it and drain their battery flat while they are parked on your driveway. Maybe just leave them with enough to get onto the public road before they conk out
Midnightsun
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You do know you can program your Tesla brand Gen 3 wall connector to only charge your car/s or whatever car you choose right? If activated, a handshake is required which has to recognize the car plugged in, if it matches to what the owner has allowed then charging will start. If not it simply will not allow a charge. I have activated mine at the office to only charge both of our cars as well as the wall connectors at home. Was a little inconvenient when they gave me a loaner which would not charge but not very difficult to deactivate.
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Midnightsun
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Midnightsun
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Correct, Gen3 Wall Connectors only. Thanks, forgot to mention that and made the correction in my initial post.
I suspect most in the UK don’t use the Tesla charger because it’s weak on features that are useful for us here. My charger speaks to my electricity provider, works out the times when demand on the grid is the lowest and charges the car then. In return I get a vastly reduced rate for my electricity.
Probably others with solar have chargers that align charging with excess solar generation.
Probably others with solar have chargers that align charging with excess solar generation.
It doesn’t with some of the newer charging tariffs in the UK that need specific chargers of which Tesla’s one isn’t supported.
When my car charges is random each night and it might not be in a single block. It might do 30 minutes at 11am and then another 1 hour from 3am say. It’s up to the electricity company. I just say I want the car at 80% by 7am and it’ll pick when to charge it so it achieves that.
That precisely what Octopus Intelligent does by talking directly to the car.
Amazon has lots
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