Cont: Electric Vehicles II
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novaphile
Quester of Doglets
Well...
My solar system isolates from the grid, when the grid goes down.
This means that I can continue to run the house off the battery, and charge my car off the solar panels, when the grid is down.
These days, I only charge the car once the house battery is full (9 kWh) and then fill up the car battery (10 kWh).
I'm impressed with the engineering of the system, it waits for one minute after the grid comes back on, to make sure that the grid is stable, before re-connecting.
So far, I've been notified that the grid has gone down three times since the system was installed at the end of August.
That's three power failures that I've avoided already.
Between the solar system, rainwater system, the car, and my 'camping' stoves, I feel quite defended against storm outages.
Note that I was able to drive home quite happily in the famous 8 hour blackout.
A lot of vehicles were abandoned on the side of the road, because petrol stations can't pump petrol, without power.
It still feels like I have the best of both worlds, with my PHEV.
I always have a couple of tins of petrol in the boat shed, to power my 5 HP chipper/shredder.
Worst case, I could fall back on those in an emergency.
My solar system isolates from the grid, when the grid goes down.
This means that I can continue to run the house off the battery, and charge my car off the solar panels, when the grid is down.
These days, I only charge the car once the house battery is full (9 kWh) and then fill up the car battery (10 kWh).
I'm impressed with the engineering of the system, it waits for one minute after the grid comes back on, to make sure that the grid is stable, before re-connecting.
So far, I've been notified that the grid has gone down three times since the system was installed at the end of August.
That's three power failures that I've avoided already.
Between the solar system, rainwater system, the car, and my 'camping' stoves, I feel quite defended against storm outages.
Note that I was able to drive home quite happily in the famous 8 hour blackout.
A lot of vehicles were abandoned on the side of the road, because petrol stations can't pump petrol, without power.
It still feels like I have the best of both worlds, with my PHEV.
I always have a couple of tins of petrol in the boat shed, to power my 5 HP chipper/shredder.
Worst case, I could fall back on those in an emergency.
Rolfe
Adult human female
But what about people living in apartment blocks?
theelectricviking.com
Nox Energy Rolls Out Major EV Charging Infrastructure at Canberra Apartment Complex - The Electric Viking
Nox Energy is wiring all 254 apartments at The Griffin in Canberra for EV charging, letting residents opt in to smart sockets in their own parking spaces. It's only the second strata building in Australia fitted out by the Sydney company, after Melbourne's Sierra Hawthorn in March 2026.
theelectricviking.com
Trebuchet
Penultimate Amazing
Watched that earlier today.
It cost very little less than my 2025 Toyota Tacoma which actually has a useful length pickup bed and other better features.
Filippo Lippi
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What a suprise.
malbui
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One of my regular stops on my way to the UK is the Aire d'Urvillers, just south of Saint-Quentin. It's not great but it's convenient.
The Tesla supercharger array is on the far corner of the site, a bit far from the service station, and surrounded by parking for cars and lorries. But yet again on both my visits over the last week I got there to find cars with caravans parked lengthways along the whole row of chargers. And not Teslas in the process of charging. The response when I knocked on windows? 'Oh sorry, we really didn't realise.' Some people need eyesight and cognitive tests to keep their licences.
The Tesla supercharger array is on the far corner of the site, a bit far from the service station, and surrounded by parking for cars and lorries. But yet again on both my visits over the last week I got there to find cars with caravans parked lengthways along the whole row of chargers. And not Teslas in the process of charging. The response when I knocked on windows? 'Oh sorry, we really didn't realise.' Some people need eyesight and cognitive tests to keep their licences.