UK electric vehicle driver and enthusiast with a background in Electronics and Lithium batteries at Bath University.
Gloucester, England
Joined June 2018
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I was really impressed with this fully electric 3 phase barn conversion AirBNB in rural France that even has fibre internet until I saw the random choc block connector coming out of the bathroom wall into the kitchen that was live @ArtElectrics. I still find bathroom sockets odd!
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⚡️ There are 234 GW of potential Energy Storage System projects on the National Grid TEC register, many will be batteries🔋 like the ones @TeslaOwnersUK visited today.
📊 Here's the data broken down by year and project status.
Data from @NationalGridESO TEC Register.
I must admit today was epic to see what the @Tesla_Megapack and @Harmony_Energy_ team are doing to support the UKs transition to sustainable energy. This one site (they have many more) provides 196MWh of battery storage, with a peak output of 98MW (this is enough to provide 300,000 homes with power for 2 hours at max load).
This site stores excess wind/cheap/green power, improves our grid reliability, helps to flatten peaks of demand/excess and helps our country become less reliant on other countries or more importantly dirty limited fossil fuels.
We as a country/world need far more of this tech! And it was incredible to hear @tesla provide a 20 year warranty on these LFP (Zero Cobalt) packs, they guarantee a certain level of capacity over that period and provide full support onsite when required.
Many Megapack sites supposedly make a profit so quickly it’s a no brainer to install if you can and presumably cell manufacturing is the primary factor that slows these down…?
Why isn’t more talked about this part of the Tesla business? Sounds like we urgently need a Tesla battery facility in the UK/Europe @elonmusk
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Some very good news you probably won’t have heard about today, but could be the best thing the govt has done for EV drivers.
The Public Charge Point Regs 2023 may not sound exciting, but things are about to get a lot better for EV drivers! Thread 🧵
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What Rowan got wrong.
The average petrol or diesel car produces around 47 tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime, including manufacture.
Meanwhile, EVs average 20 tonnes less over their lifespan, battery electrochemist, @106Euan, tells @_Reya on @TimesRadio.
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There is some exciting news regarding the „UNECE Regulation on Driver Control Assistance Systems“ (DCAS), that enables FSD Beta in Europe.
Initially, the final draft was expected to be completed until 2024, which would have meant that FSD could’ve received approval until January 2025.
Now the European Commission intends to give DCAS the highest priority and wants to complete it this year. The final draft is expected to be ready as early as September of this year.
This means that FSD Beta could be possible in Europe at the earliest by January 2024, and at the latest by the summer of 2024.
To accelerate the process, hands-on (Phase 1) will be separated from hands-off (Phase 2). Therefore, regardless of whether hands-off is allowed in the US by then, only hands-on will be allowed for us until Phase 2 is completed.
It will also be discussed whether a closed testing phase can be allowed before the approval in January 2024.
Source:
wiki.unece.org/display/trans…
wiki.unece.org/download/atta…
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@NissanUK @NissanEurope @NissanUKPR I am speechless🤦♂️this advert is appalling.E-Power is NOT an electric car,it is 100% powered by fossil fuels. Why the ridiculous Anti-EV photos of an exploding power line & curb full huge sparking cables,so sad.
Nissan you are better than this🤷♂️
Back home to see my parents on the @EnergicaUK SS9, great fun on the first long ride of 2023. Time for a wash with my Dad on the @ZeroMC SR/F and charging on the @myenergiuk Zappi tonight with cheap Electricity from @OctopusEnergy. Thanks all for making this all possible😃
Great to see the new plans for the new Cheltenham Cyber park have plenty of sustainable transport options for walking, cycling and EV charging, and no gas connections. Here's to solar on all the roof too. #cyberpark @AlexChalkChelt @CheltenhamBC @GoldenValley_UK @hbdplaces
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There's 1 HFCV on @AutoTrader_UK, it requires 1kg, £12 of H2 for 60 miles range. That's 33 kWh's of gas and electric. You could use 15kWh's for the same distance in a BEV, which you can buy for 25K less, new, and fill for as little as 75p. But this is coming any day soon 😂
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It costs less than £10k extra to build a “zero bills” home. Thanks to a heat pump, solar, battery and smart optimisation from @OctopusEnergy, these @ilkehomes houses are not some pipedream. They’re here now. Electrification is magic
#EVFestival has a great electric motorcycle showing, all of us had a Zero last year and we've all found our way to @EnergicaUK @EnergicaMotor now 😁🏍️ – at West Midlands, England
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Lovely! 😍😍
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary – at Cheltenham, England
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The @TeslaOwnersUK have been incredibly generous with their support to FulllyCharged.LIVE since 2018, so it was our pleasure to attend their most excellent #Supercharged2022 event. If you have a Tesla you can enjoy all of the fun stuff they do.
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Computer says no.
@AaronCockerEV and I tried charging our @EnergicaMotor electric motorcycles yesterday evening at the Banbury @Tesla charge points which opened up to non-Tesla vehicles on Wednesday, but alas, they don't like the bikes… or the bikes don't like them.