Good Morning Worlds!
I have had to move the homecarer's car as she parked it in the middle of the narrow road blocking all traffic. And bin lorries are due this morning.
I will be popping into work to meet a lift engineer in a moment, and then, instead of going to the community workshop, we will run away to Bygone Times to see how the electric car works for us over a bit more distance. That should use about 60 miles and leave us with 107 miles of range. We'll see how close we get to that.
OK, I got the starting range wrong. There was 140 miles available and we have done a 60 mile-ish round trip, and still have 101 miles of range and 45% battery.
I have plugged in for a slow charge in a 13A socket and if suggests 14 hours of charge time remaining. I wonder what that will stop at? I'll find out tomorrow morning, I guess.
@pthane
Yes, a standard 13A socket.
I am going to start getting the stuff together to have a temporary 32A socket and 7kW charger that we can unplug and take with us when we move.
Because the car is parked facing outwards at the far end of the drive I need to run a supply cable from the house, across the path and drive, along the hedge and to the gate post. It is about 20m from the main CCU.
@Maker_of_Things we charge off a standard socket too. Most of the time I want to charge from our solar, so being able to charge any faster than 4kW would actually be a disadvantage. So we've never splashed out on a dedicated charger.
For our Leaf, I have a rule of thumb that "granny"charging at 2.4kW is 10mph, 7kW charging is 30mph and 50kW (highest current our Leaf can take) is around 200mph.
@pengfold
That sounds fair.
We can probably manage fine on the granny lead and 2.4kW most of the time.
But having a 7kW charger would mean that we could have a full charge overnight after an evening out.
However, having a temporary plug in 32A supply set up, and a dumb charger, means that I can easily remove it when we move house and have it available in our new place in rural Wales where there are fewer public chargers and we'd need the range more often.
2.4kW on granny sounds fast to me!
Mine (MG OEM) allegedly did 1.5kW. I'd typically see 1.2-1.4kW. Now I have a 7kW wall box so I can use more of my excess solar, rather than sell it for next to nothing.
Your plan for a portable 7kW sounds great!
@thefathippy @pengfold
I saw a video the other day that suggested that economically it was better to sell your excess solar to the grid and the recharge off the grid.
I suppose that depends on your tariff charges each way.
I don't have solar here so that part doesn't affect me.
Maybe after we have moved we can have solar.
Yep. It's definitely a case of it depends. My base export payment is $AU0.04kWh. My import rate is $0.366kWh, so it's much better value for me to use my solar instead of exporting. Some plans have cheap imports at certain times, but imports still costs more than they pay.
Also, now I have a home battery, I'm trying to avoid all grid imports. 99% successfully (the system does brief, tiny imports to balance frequency) 😁
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