Value Collector
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Getting everyone ready for electric vehicles, lets put up the price to charge them.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/...-half-the-cost-of-petrol-20190715-p527g6.html
A bit rough when it is a lot dearer than residential tarif.
Have you got a final price on the model 3 , VCI should have my car in the next 2 months or so.
I plan to have it set up to be slowly charging from my solar when I am home during the day, and boost it with offpeak at night once a month of so if the day charging doesn’t keep up, and then use super chargers on road trips.
Have you got a final price on the model 3 , VC
Thats not bad. What were the extras?$79,000 after extras.
Thats not bad. What were the extras?
Cant wait to hear your thoughts on it.$79,000 after extras.
Cant wait to hear your thoughts on it.
You will have to start a thread.I took the paint upgrade and the autopilot package, and I think maybe something else.
I basically took all the upgrades except the performance package.
It has been looked at seriously in Tasmania quite some time ago by the Hydro and more recently by AEMO at a national level.I haven't seen anything in the media about the nuts and bolts figures as opposed to blue sky aspirations.
A related issue is that what time is off-peak is itself shifting due to the use of solar. Already we're seeing days where minimum load is around midday in SA (to the point of renewable energy going to waste in some cases) and it's rapidly going the same way in Victoria. Add in EV charging at night, plus the increasing use of solar, and that's all bearing down rather quickly.Charging at home will be at your regular rate or offpeak rate.
That's certainly true but the idea is to avoid that step so far as possible when the end use is via a storage device anyway.Don't forget in those low load periods, we will be pumping water up a hill or charging storage batteries.
I should have my car in the next 2 months or so.
I plan to have it set up to be slowly charging from my solar when I am home during the day, and boost it with offpeak at night once a month of so if the day charging doesn’t keep up, and then use super chargers on road trips.
A related issue is that what time is off-peak is itself shifting due to the use of solar. Already we're seeing days where minimum load is around midday in SA (to the point of renewable energy going to waste in some cases) and it's rapidly going the same way in Victoria. Add in EV charging at night, plus the increasing use of solar, and that's all bearing down rather quickly.
That being so, there's a need to shift the timing of other off-peak loads (eg water heating) increasingly to daytime and that's part of what needs to happen with EV's assuming they're mostly charged at night.
Solar generation and heat water plus a bit of EV charging in the daytime. Low demand for everything else apart from EV charging overnight. That works as a concept - point being that pushing up the load at midday or 3am is useful in itself with more wind and solar being built.
In some states that's dead easy just do it. In others it's a slow plodding progress but will happen. In others it'swith state governments too wedded to the past not the future standing in the way.
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I have put a timer on my hot water system to heat in the middle of the day, look at my solar production chart from yesterday in the photo above and you can see the signature of the hot water system operating.
I plan on charging my car using 2kw/ hour from 8am - 3.30 pm when ever I am home, and boosting it over night when needed.
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I have an 8.2 kw system, but my power provider made me put an export limiter in that limits exports to 5 kw per hour, hence why I switched my hot water system to middle of day.
I did similar, originally I had gas hws and cooking, now all electric and rooftop solar.View attachment 96203
I have put a timer on my hot water system to heat in the middle of the day, look at my solar production chart from yesterday in the photo above and you can see the signature of the hot water system operating.
I plan on charging my car using 2kw/ hour from 8am - 3.30 pm when ever I am home, and boosting it over night when needed.
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I have an 8.2 kw system, but my power provider made me put an export limiter in that limits exports to 5 kw per hour, hence why I switched my hot water system to middle of day.
Here you go VC, a Harley to put in the garage, next to the Tesla.I should have my car in the next 2 months or so.
I plan to have it set up to be slowly charging from my solar when I am home during the day, and boost it with offpeak at night once a month of so if the day charging doesn’t keep up, and then use super chargers on road trips.
Here you go VC, a Harley to put in the garage, next to the Tesla.
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