This is a video Diary following me switching from a Petrol Car to an Electric car, in the UK and in a pretty rural area. It picks up from the point at where I am going to ditch my old banger for something else, and consider the EV route. This is real - as it happens with no bull.
After 4 Years of ownership, I have taken the plunge and now ordered - to purchase outright, no lease, no battery rental a Renault Zoe ZE 40 Q90... so loads more videos to follow :)
Hmmm, LEDs look out of sequence on your hybrid inverter? Might not matter on the energy cube but on the HV2600 it sometimes indicates an issue. I might be wrong!
Thought occurs what would insurance company say if you have a burn and they ask was it installed by approved installer , I know you likely often know more with your experience , but we all know about insurance companies and the opportunity to say no .
I’m just installing , I want in reality the whole house to be able to run if I go off grid . Teslas suggested but their limitation is you have to choose what you want to run in the event of off grid . Does the ESS allow complete function without having to choose , assuming I have enough cubes ?
I charge my eNV200 40kWh on off peak Octopus intelligent go 11:30 to 5:30 (you've probably found that tariff by now) that would boost your 3.4 kW charge.
The direction arrows on the clamp refer to the live lead between meter and consumer unit. If put on negative lead, the clamp direction must be reversed.
Leaf is way better than Renault zoe. My leaf just did its 7th MOT no single fault. Leaf built quality and reliability is hard to match. Yes battery chemistry could be poor but its fall down to where and how its been used. I still got 81.35% SOH.11bars. 2013 Registered Japan leaf. Amazing and going strong
From all you in chat & Ian, Curious to know what you're charging the cycles are for the daily grind i own a evn200 40kwh & zoe 24kwh, at the moment i set the charge to 75%, this gives me enough for 100miles in the van and 60-70ish in the car, thou i have quoted these miles In reality. the car does 10 miles a day and the van does 40 miles a day, The van displays full bars on the health thing. As I haven't gotten OBD reader, I will have to presume this is accurate.
@IanSampsonRLO you should pin the update video to this one - the bad news is still the runaway success, and got pushed again into my feed without the good news response video showing up.
Amazing news! I've only just come across this today! 24 to 40kWh for £5k, and a new lease of life for another 8-10 years I suppose? Fingers crossed! On another note, the comments section for this video seems to have less of the luddites from your original... Funny that, can't deal with a positive story right? Just like when they realise that not every vehicle fire is an EV or something like that
I think it has more to do with the AI controlling what videos are pushed and which are not. Videos that do well are always the ones that are ‘suggested’ by youtube to viewers - very frustrating as you are at the mercy of that and nought you can do about it!
Pleased to hear you got it sorted for a good price. I have now upgraded from my 22 Kwh Zoe to a ZE50 Iconic EV50. Totally different beast and three times the range. You must now have the longest range ENV200.
FYI your charge at 10p/kWh doesn't work out as your import rate as you're not adding in the losses from the battery & inverter which workout at 12% give or take. So charge at 10p/kWh costs 11.2p/kWh discharging. Considering tracker at approx 18p/kWh you're only saving 7p/kWh but you've spent over £20k on batteries. For most consumers this doesn't make sense, but if you're a higher user it may, but Octopus Tracker does put a big dent in break even date. That said, I do love your set up, so jealous
Loss from grid to battery and back out is around 5%. Now on 7.5p off peak, and additionally not for 4 hours but 6 now. Super cheap, break even at this rate much much sooner!
@@IanSampsonRLO I have the FOXESS Energy Cubes & the % difference between cumulative charge/discharge efficiency is 90-91%. A 10% loss from battery storage is common. How are you calculating losses?
The batteries don't restart remotely until they reaches 50% and sometimes batteries don't get charging. What's that meant ? And what's solution about that problem? Please
Good to see the update. If you can get import at 9p/kwh then surely as long as you can go 20hrs on batteries then exporting all your solar pays 15p/kwh? I can't remember which ev charger you have, I assume it's not a zappi or ohme as then you could go on Octopus Intelligent Go, for 6hrs at 7p/kwh?
similar issue to me regarding HA. first off, don't do a wireless connection, try a ethernet over power cables system. once in there the Modbus thing is very effective and there is a very good video set on here that walks you through how to make that work. Good luck
It'd be easier if you could use the cars as storage for the winter 🤔 well at least if you didn't use them in the winter ? You'd need an ICE vehicle for winter 😂
Oh no you're not you could be using a second hand car battery and the battery emulator on some lilygo. Since you have two inverters you could have have two kona/niro packs 64kwh each i.e. 128kwh probably for the same price as the oem ones you have there.
Expecting my new battery this week from Company called Fogstar 15.5kwh battery for £2500 Should of been delivered by now but some issue with courier. Have sold off my plyontech batteries for arrival of new double capacity. Have not seen any reviews of this battery yet. Be interesting see how it goes ....
Glad you have got your setup optimised. Would be interesting to see how it performs over the summer and how much (if any) you’ll need to pull from the grid. Good work.
I have the same problem. I am sure I set it to scheduled charging and it didn't start. The app also says it is plugged in and set to scheduled charging. Most days it works, some days it doesnt.
@@IanSampsonRLO I have a 68 plate leaf Tekna 40kwh , it’s an ex taxi and is just about to hit 100,000 miles . The range is still showing 140+ miles at 100% and will get pretty close to that if driven carefully . Tad more in summer and 110 in the depths of winter .
Hi Ian - Glad you are all sorted now !. Brilliant job Edd 😉. Of course having to pay out £5,000 for a replacement battery, is never ideal situation. Of course we fully expect that this will be totally scoffed at by the anti EV mob. But before hitting the key board, consider this. If you had an ICE vehicle and it required a new engine after covering a similar mileage of 80,000 miles, what do you think it would cost to purchase the unit and then have installed ?. Also, it maybe worth thinking about the outlay on fossil fuel and servicing costs over that 80,000 miles of course. These EV cost savings will make a tidy reduction in the price of the finished repair Ian. Just saying 😞.
You’d be better off slinging the cash you would spend on a 6.6kw into an octopus Intelligent compliant charger like an Ohme . You’ll get 6 hrs slightly cheaper but you’ll also probably get extra cheap sessions as the car won’t take faster than 3.3kw .
