I know of an elderly couple who own a model 3 who sit in their car on the seafront watching the news and other things on the screen whklst drinking coffee and having their breakfast and lunch They do this to lower their home fuel bill as its cheaper to keep warm in the car with the heated seats and heater on than it is to heat their home adequately. A great idea!
I have solar and a Tesla Powerwall. The battery saves me the most money as it allows me to only use cheap rate electricity, even on days when the solar produces a minimal amount. It also meant that my house was the only one in the street with lights on during a 6 hour power cut.
same here during the recent storms! We stood out as we had lights on, and as a result, many curious neighbours popped in - for a coffee or two and a warm up!
Thanks Will, it was great to spend time chatting with you.😎 We’re very grateful for the campsite coverage as well 🙏🏻 Certainly looking forward to seeing you camp in your Model Y or Cybertruck! 🎉🏕️
This shows yet again the benefit of an EV. If all came with V2G or V2L it would change our grid infrastructure massively. I do hope that the Tesla’s could perhaps have a link to the Powerwall that would help a lot and get around the problem that Elon Musk says of losing power when you take the car away from home!
Your EV battery largely follows you around to where you consume your energy. At home, in your car, at work. Equally you can then charge it at home or daytime at work when the sun is shining. A Tesla VPP when your car is doing nothing 95% of the time AND at the point of consumption would negate much of the delay and cost of modifying the grid for a non fossil fuel future.
@@SynergyDMS I think part of the reason Tesla don’t have V2L is it would impact their energy Business. 7m cars plugged into houses is 7m potential powerwall sales they don’t get. Once you’re part of their ecosystem it becomes like Apple for energy. I’m expecting to get a few powerwalls, which I can buy extra frames for in the future to increase storage and benefit from VPP model. I’m sure I’ll keep Will up to date with progress. 😉
Great story Will, and thank you for sharing. There would have been an even better result if he owned a vehicle with bidirectional charging or if Tesla included this feature on 3 and Y.
@TeslaJigsaw Agreed, Will. Someone should shame Elon publicly that a 15k Dacia has an important feature missing on every Tesla except Cybertruck, despite prices many times higher. Other brands, such as the Hyundai group, also offer this feature, making Teslas very out of date in some ways. VTL is much more important than supervised FSD for many potential owners such as myself.
I agree, I hope Tesla install 'vehicle to load' systems in their cars. I’m in a northern region of Québec and with long deep winters, heavy snow storms , plus the electricity system is all above ground on telegraph poles, outages are common. Fortunately, most are short, but every few years a long outage will happen. 😅 . A very good interview Will. 😊
100% agree.... have an EV, Solar and batteries and my total run costs for gas and electric covering the house, heating and the car was - £330 after feed in tariff payments. I'm running at 99% off peak prices so 7p/kw even in depth of winter. £19k investment now earning 20-25% return every year. Yes it is alot of money but it will sit there now paying me so much more than a legal financial investment anywhere else ever could. Vehicle to Load/Grid and a utility tariff for people that just want batteries really is needed as they all seem to be tied to having to have an EV at the moment.
Ah, someone has clicked a battery is a better investment than solar! Powerwall - guarantees 13.5 KWh 365 days per year at 7p per KWh Use it when day time Electricity is almost 4x the price. Unlike Solar Dec-March!!! North of say Paris, just when we need the MOST solar we get the LEAST energy.
It clicked years ago, but economics dictate timeframes. Fortunately now Batteries are VAT free, I can benefit from 20% price reduction and 5 years for battery development. Adding Tesup wind turbines will deliver solar winter shortfall.
I have a powerwall App but it thinks i am in the US , i see others have this problem that know more than i do but no matter how i try to add my non Tesla it wont let me use UK , The list of countries is Greyed out
I live in a 1970’s modest 4 bedrooms detached home. Gas heating and water. I have an EV which I charge mostly at home. If I deduct the EV charging which is done overnight atc7p KWh. I still use about 25-30 KWh per day Electric And This cold week around 120Kwh per day for heating and water. Even if I optimistically reduced that to 30 KWh using a heat pump! That is still 55-60 KWh per day. A rooftop solar array at this time of year would provide around only 5-10 KWh per day, 10-15% of my usage?
They had gas and a wood burner to keep them alive and a Tesla to charge their phones and infotainment to keep them entertained. We are living in the best times when we got everything covered in worst case scenarios.
You don't have VtL??? Even my humble MG4 has VtL. I could theoretically run an extension cable into the house and plug anything I wanted into it, just being careful not to overload it (but it will boil a 3 kw kettle so it's no slouch). The two main issues there are that the way the fridge and the freezer are wired it would be very hard to get their plugs to an extenson lead, and the central heating boiler is hard-wired with no plug. OK, my heating is kerosene. Bad person, but it is what it is. The mad thing of course is that in a power cut I'm sitting there with a tank full of the stuff in the garden and no way to use it because the boiler needs mains electricity. Solution? I haven't done it yet, but I should at least price it up. First, find out about the modification my solar/battery system needs to run isolated from the mains - at the moment it talks to the mains all the time and would be useless in a power cut. Then second, find out about a battery charger that would charge my home battery from the car's VtL. I understand this is possible. (I don't know what happens to any solar while this setup is operational, if there is any, but that's not a big deal as I export most of that to the grid anyway.) That done, in a power cut I simply run the house from the isolated home battery, and if that's getting low, charge it from the car battery. If the power cut is a long one but reasonably local, I could drive the car to a working charger, charge up its battery, and bring the power back to the house. Yes, or I could sit in the car listening to the car radio and even watching films if I could figure out how to get that to work. I could use the car to keep my phone, kindle, computer, torch and bedside light charged. Or maybe there's a better way? That will also allow me to keep my house warm?
I know of an elderly couple who own a model 3 who sit in their car on the seafront watching the news and other things on the screen whklst drinking coffee and having their breakfast and lunch
They do this to lower their home fuel bill as its cheaper to keep warm in the car with the heated seats and heater on than it is to heat their home adequately.
A great idea!
Another great chat. Love this type of content. Real world people chatting real world positive stuff. Thanks to you both.
Great to hear, thank you! 🙏
I have solar and a Tesla Powerwall. The battery saves me the most money as it allows me to only use cheap rate electricity, even on days when the solar produces a minimal amount. It also meant that my house was the only one in the street with lights on during a 6 hour power cut.
same here during the recent storms! We stood out as we had lights on, and as a result, many curious neighbours popped in - for a coffee or two and a warm up!
Thanks Will, it was great to spend time chatting with you.😎
We’re very grateful for the campsite coverage as well 🙏🏻
Certainly looking forward to seeing you camp in your Model Y or Cybertruck! 🎉🏕️
Thanks Rich! Looking forward to following your renewable energy journey, and coming to camp in my new Model Y someday 👍
🙏🏻 you’re welcome to borrow my ModelY to have a practice if you want 🎉
This shows yet again the benefit of an EV. If all came with V2G or V2L it would change our grid infrastructure massively.
I do hope that the Tesla’s could perhaps have a link to the Powerwall that would help a lot and get around the problem that Elon Musk says of losing power when you take the car away from home!
Your EV battery largely follows you around to where you consume your energy. At home, in your car, at work. Equally you can then charge it at home or daytime at work when the sun is shining. A Tesla VPP when your car is doing nothing 95% of the time AND at the point of consumption would negate much of the delay and cost of modifying the grid for a non fossil fuel future.
@@SynergyDMS I think part of the reason Tesla don’t have V2L is it would impact their energy Business. 7m cars plugged into houses is 7m potential powerwall sales they don’t get. Once you’re part of their ecosystem it becomes like Apple for energy.
I’m expecting to get a few powerwalls, which I can buy extra frames for in the future to increase storage and benefit from VPP model. I’m sure I’ll keep Will up to date with progress. 😉
thank you both for sharing
Our pleasure!
@@TeslaJigsaw Indeed 🙏🏻🥂
Great video, Will and very useful as well as encouraging. Thanks to Richard Urwin(?) too
Great story Will, and thank you for sharing. There would have been an even better result if he owned a vehicle with bidirectional charging or if Tesla included this feature on 3 and Y.
Yes! One of my very few Tesla bugbears
@TeslaJigsaw Agreed, Will. Someone should shame Elon publicly that a 15k Dacia has an important feature missing on every Tesla except Cybertruck, despite prices many times higher. Other brands, such as the Hyundai group, also offer this feature, making Teslas very out of date in some ways. VTL is much more important than supervised FSD for many potential owners such as myself.
I agree, I hope Tesla install 'vehicle to load' systems in their cars. I’m in a northern region of Québec and with long deep winters, heavy snow storms , plus the electricity system is all above ground on telegraph poles, outages are common. Fortunately, most are short, but every few years a long outage will happen. 😅
. A very good interview Will. 😊
Agreed from rural northern Ontario.
@@elainebradley8213. Saguenay.
In Angola, Africa (colonial times), lightning-rod were almost forceful to have by law . It is cheap and easy to install.
The hotter it gets, the drier the trees.
100% agree.... have an EV, Solar and batteries and my total run costs for gas and electric covering the house, heating and the car was - £330 after feed in tariff payments. I'm running at 99% off peak prices so 7p/kw even in depth of winter. £19k investment now earning 20-25% return every year. Yes it is alot of money but it will sit there now paying me so much more than a legal financial investment anywhere else ever could. Vehicle to Load/Grid and a utility tariff for people that just want batteries really is needed as they all seem to be tied to having to have an EV at the moment.
BEVs and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) help to both prevent as well as mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Ah, someone has clicked a battery is a better investment than solar!
Powerwall - guarantees 13.5 KWh 365 days per year at 7p per KWh
Use it when day time Electricity is almost 4x the price.
Unlike Solar Dec-March!!!
North of say Paris, just when we need the MOST solar we get the LEAST energy.
It clicked years ago, but economics dictate timeframes. Fortunately now Batteries are VAT free, I can benefit from 20% price reduction and 5 years for battery development. Adding Tesup wind turbines will deliver solar winter shortfall.
I have a powerwall App but it thinks i am in the US , i see others have this problem that know more than i do but no matter how i try to add my non Tesla it wont let me use UK , The list of countries is Greyed out
Come on Tesla, where's the frigging V2G!
You tell em'! (I will too!)
V2H or V2L would be useful as a start.
Cybertruck or Powerwall.
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I live in a 1970’s modest 4 bedrooms detached home.
Gas heating and water.
I have an EV which I charge mostly at home.
If I deduct the EV charging which is done overnight atc7p KWh.
I still use about 25-30 KWh per day Electric
And
This cold week around 120Kwh per day for heating and water.
Even if I optimistically reduced that to 30 KWh using a heat pump!
That is still 55-60 KWh per day.
A rooftop solar array at this time of year would provide around only 5-10 KWh per day, 10-15% of my usage?
No solar and batteries?
If only there was a way to gather power from wind and store it in some kind of box for use at a later time......
They had gas and a wood burner to keep them alive and a Tesla to charge their phones and infotainment to keep them entertained. We are living in the best times when we got everything covered in worst case scenarios.
You don't have VtL??? Even my humble MG4 has VtL. I could theoretically run an extension cable into the house and plug anything I wanted into it, just being careful not to overload it (but it will boil a 3 kw kettle so it's no slouch). The two main issues there are that the way the fridge and the freezer are wired it would be very hard to get their plugs to an extenson lead, and the central heating boiler is hard-wired with no plug.
OK, my heating is kerosene. Bad person, but it is what it is. The mad thing of course is that in a power cut I'm sitting there with a tank full of the stuff in the garden and no way to use it because the boiler needs mains electricity.
Solution? I haven't done it yet, but I should at least price it up. First, find out about the modification my solar/battery system needs to run isolated from the mains - at the moment it talks to the mains all the time and would be useless in a power cut. Then second, find out about a battery charger that would charge my home battery from the car's VtL. I understand this is possible. (I don't know what happens to any solar while this setup is operational, if there is any, but that's not a big deal as I export most of that to the grid anyway.)
That done, in a power cut I simply run the house from the isolated home battery, and if that's getting low, charge it from the car battery. If the power cut is a long one but reasonably local, I could drive the car to a working charger, charge up its battery, and bring the power back to the house.
Yes, or I could sit in the car listening to the car radio and even watching films if I could figure out how to get that to work. I could use the car to keep my phone, kindle, computer, torch and bedside light charged. Or maybe there's a better way? That will also allow me to keep my house warm?
👋👍
My cheap Chinese MG4 has V2G !!! Take that Tesla fans! 😂
I heard there was plenty of fallen deadwood in California a few weeks ago.
Are you trying to be funny? You have NOT succeeded.