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Great Update i ordered my battery on top of my solar now and hope to get it paid off in 6 years time the solar that I installed 4 years ago is paid off by next year 100% so hoping this battery is as good of an investment also.

Do you have to balance the new ones with the old ones?

Main dealers will rip you off if they get half a chance!

Wow , turns out this ev is so much cheaper to use than a petrol/diesel....

£10k for repairs 86k miles 6.5 years ... you have saved more than that on fuel, sevicing and road tax...

The Honda bumped the other car in the first test!?

What about the insurance? It is now a "modified" vehicle...

Hi, haven't been through all the replies to your vid, but has anyone just suggested you go old school and insert a production meter in line with the AC output lines if that is possible

For checking some of your E clips... I'm pretty sure you are stocked to get the Renault 5. It seems that the new Renault 5 will be everything the Honda E should have been when it was released, range wise at least. (I'm thinking of getting an used Honda E with 16,000 kms for 20k Eur... not sure yet but sounds about right the price for that range)

That top view, looking down on the car, I presume it's a video drone, with the operator in a open top car behind? I hope to get the Scenic E-Tech, 379 miles & it's got everything. All depends on the seat, if good sell my Scenic MK3 9800mls, like new. Offers..

With the repairs its not so much the labour but the parts are so expensive with Renault, if you can get them with older fuel cars.

Failed on your number plates? Where they not secure.

Dont those things have a 10 year 100k mile battery warranty?

What kind of range can you expect when driving on the motorway?

0:58 £10k for a SECOND HAND battery???????? This is one of many reasons while I'll never buy an EV.

cant get this scam app to work

Hmmm, LEDs look out of sequence on your hybrid inverter? Might not matter on the energy cube but on the HV2600 it sometimes indicates an issue. I might be wrong!

Thought occurs what would insurance company say if you have a burn and they ask was it installed by approved installer , I know you likely often know more with your experience , but we all know about insurance companies and the opportunity to say no .

I’m just installing , I want in reality the whole house to be able to run if I go off grid . Teslas suggested but their limitation is you have to choose what you want to run in the event of off grid . Does the ESS allow complete function without having to choose , assuming I have enough cubes ?

I charge my eNV200 40kWh on off peak Octopus intelligent go 11:30 to 5:30 (you've probably found that tariff by now) that would boost your 3.4 kW charge.

What is maximum charge and discharge in your systems?

you put the dip up before adding. Do you need to put that down after you added the two batteries. Also how do you update the firmware?

He Ian,love your videos thanks. Find your self a towbar and a small trailer 👍

The direction arrows on the clamp refer to the live lead between meter and consumer unit. If put on negative lead, the clamp direction must be reversed.

Leaf is way better than Renault zoe. My leaf just did its 7th MOT no single fault. Leaf built quality and reliability is hard to match. Yes battery chemistry could be poor but its fall down to where and how its been used. I still got 81.35% SOH.11bars. 2013 Registered Japan leaf. Amazing and going strong

From all you in chat & Ian, Curious to know what you're charging the cycles are for the daily grind i own a evn200 40kwh & zoe 24kwh, at the moment i set the charge to 75%, this gives me enough for 100miles in the van and 60-70ish in the car, thou i have quoted these miles In reality. the car does 10 miles a day and the van does 40 miles a day, The van displays full bars on the health thing. As I haven't gotten OBD reader, I will have to presume this is accurate.

@IanSampsonRLO you should pin the update video to this one - the bad news is still the runaway success, and got pushed again into my feed without the good news response video showing up.

interesting, is this site still active?

Why do people in Europe complain so much? It's all complaining god it's unbearable

Did you sort out your iboost? i’ve got exactly the same problem, done everything suggested in the comments, but didn’t work

Ian - you'd better get that room cleaned up before the wife sees it 😉

Leafs are the best

If only it had just a litte bit more range… Like 5-7kWh more, it’d be a much more useable 2nd car for us

Amazing news! I've only just come across this today! 24 to 40kWh for £5k, and a new lease of life for another 8-10 years I suppose? Fingers crossed! On another note, the comments section for this video seems to have less of the luddites from your original... Funny that, can't deal with a positive story right? Just like when they realise that not every vehicle fire is an EV or something like that

Could you please give Eds details, as i need to do this swap✅

Pleased to hear you got it sorted for a good price. I have now upgraded from my 22 Kwh Zoe to a ZE50 Iconic EV50. Totally different beast and three times the range. You must now have the longest range ENV200.

Sounds like you've bought an absolute pile of garbage and had it fitted by cowboys. I'm stressed, you must be tearing your hair out😢

FYI your charge at 10p/kWh doesn't work out as your import rate as you're not adding in the losses from the battery & inverter which workout at 12% give or take. So charge at 10p/kWh costs 11.2p/kWh discharging. Considering tracker at approx 18p/kWh you're only saving 7p/kWh but you've spent over £20k on batteries. For most consumers this doesn't make sense, but if you're a higher user it may, but Octopus Tracker does put a big dent in break even date. That said, I do love your set up, so jealous

The batteries don't restart remotely until they reaches 50% and sometimes batteries don't get charging. What's that meant ? And what's solution about that problem? Please

Good to see the update. If you can get import at 9p/kwh then surely as long as you can go 20hrs on batteries then exporting all your solar pays 15p/kwh? I can't remember which ev charger you have, I assume it's not a zappi or ohme as then you could go on Octopus Intelligent Go, for 6hrs at 7p/kwh?

Ludicrous. My 12 year old 100,000 mile diesel nv200 van is going fantastically still. I would expect to get another 10 years out of it at least.

similar issue to me regarding HA. first off, don't do a wireless connection, try a ethernet over power cables system. once in there the Modbus thing is very effective and there is a very good video set on here that walks you through how to make that work. Good luck

Excellent update, very informative

Flipping heck all that wiring......🥴

It'd be easier if you could use the cars as storage for the winter 🤔 well at least if you didn't use them in the winter ? You'd need an ICE vehicle for winter 😂

Oh no you're not you could be using a second hand car battery and the battery emulator on some lilygo. Since you have two inverters you could have have two kona/niro packs 64kwh each i.e. 128kwh probably for the same price as the oem ones you have there.

thanks for the update mate much appreciated

It will be good when you fit all the cable ducting to meet fire regulations

Very cool, but it's a bit messy?

Expecting my new battery this week from Company called Fogstar 15.5kwh battery for £2500 Should of been delivered by now but some issue with courier. Have sold off my plyontech batteries for arrival of new double capacity. Have not seen any reviews of this battery yet. Be interesting see how it goes ....