Excellent vlog as usual. You have obviously got your hands full these days but I do miss the collaborations with Gary and the more performance oriented cars. Watched the old m3, m140i and RS comparison vlog again the day and it still looks good. Can’t believe that was 6 years ago. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
I'm with Octopus on their EV tariff, I've got their Ohme wall charger which let's you cap what price P/KWh will trigger a charge. You can then set and forget, without needing to look at wind data, just configure for lowest rate. 😊
I'm still waiing patiently for some E61 content / updates 😉 I can just see its gleeming blue roofline in couple of shots 👌 BTW... Congrats of your second littlen 👍
Cheers Matt. Yes, good spot! The E61 contiunes to motor on at 144,000 miles now. Not done a video as there's been no changes. Anything you'd like to see?
That's all very well but did you also consider how much the value of electric cars nosedive now ? If you're not using it that much, which it doesn't seem as though you are, the unit cost of energy really isn't so important.
Solar video would be good. I have solar with a battery. Sadly my solar cannot link in with agile octopus so i just have the feed in tariff . If it can link in you can charge the battery from the grid when its cheap and feed in when you get a good price.
Do you only pay for the electricity itself? Here in Belgium the actual energy is about half of the total cost you pay - the rest pays for transport of the energy, duties, VAT on those duties and transport costs, taxes to pay for the subsidies of solar panels, wind farms etc.
We pay a daily standing charge of about 40p for electricity and the a unit price per kWh. I beleve taxes and a margin for the utility company are are inlcuded in that. Don't know about the rest!
Sorry if I’m being woefully ignorant but how can they make money if you pay the wholesale price and have such an easy way to switch back to capped tariff if wholesale price exceeds it?
Good point. Octopus do let you change from Agile back to the standard tariff the same day but you’ll have to wait 30 days if you want to go back to Agile again.
Is there any way you can share the drawings of your garage? I'm going through and redoing my garage and i want to get a local company to quote on the exact build you have. 🙏 thanks in advance i know you're busy
@RoadandRacetv hi yes, in your videos you said you came up with the double garage design with the openings and eve dimensions to what you wanted. Even the top down plan view of the build would help me immensely as I live on the Isle of wight so I will not be able to use Warwick buildings for my build
The biggest problem with Ev s are they haven’t got a second hand value you tuber Mac master has got a Porsche Ev that has lost 60k in value in one year he paid 120k for it 😮
Fuelling up yer motor , lol its a feckin accountants scientific hobby , oh dear . Well you no longer have go to your .ocal petrol station . Shame my insurance is quite steep going from a ice to a ev .
Excellent vlog as usual. You have obviously got your hands full these days but I do miss the collaborations with Gary and the more performance oriented cars. Watched the old m3, m140i and RS comparison vlog again the day and it still looks good. Can’t believe that was 6 years ago. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
Cheers Paul. New build series should be kicking off shortly. Gary has a child too now but I’m trying to get him involved!
We want new 350z content!
Sure. What would you like to see?
I'm with Octopus on their EV tariff, I've got their Ohme wall charger which let's you cap what price P/KWh will trigger a charge. You can then set and forget, without needing to look at wind data, just configure for lowest rate. 😊
Nice.
I'm still waiing patiently for some E61 content / updates 😉 I can just see its gleeming blue roofline in couple of shots 👌
BTW... Congrats of your second littlen 👍
Cheers Matt. Yes, good spot! The E61 contiunes to motor on at 144,000 miles now. Not done a video as there's been no changes. Anything you'd like to see?
@@RoadandRacetv 😎 just an update would be great 👍🏼
Please make more video's, the build of the garage was excellent, and the Nissan just getting interesting.
Just had a second child so time is tight but am going to try to make at least one video a month if not more
Genuinely really happy to see you back. Keep on with the content 🎉
Thank you! Will do!
Yes, do the solar panel video.
Hey Neil, definitely up for a video on your solar, battery setup 👍🏼👌🏼
That's all very well but did you also consider how much the value of electric cars nosedive now ?
If you're not using it that much, which it doesn't seem as though you are, the unit cost of energy really isn't so important.
Solar video would be good. I have solar with a battery. Sadly my solar cannot link in with agile octopus so i just have the feed in tariff . If it can link in you can charge the battery from the grid when its cheap and feed in when you get a good price.
Cool. What inverter do you have?
@@RoadandRacetv Its an SAJ model , its a generic re banded china model but it does the job.
Would love a vid on the house battery
Nice video! Looks like you got a new camera too :)
Thanks. Yes, iPhone 13.
Do you only pay for the electricity itself? Here in Belgium the actual energy is about half of the total cost you pay - the rest pays for transport of the energy, duties, VAT on those duties and transport costs, taxes to pay for the subsidies of solar panels, wind farms etc.
We pay a daily standing charge of about 40p for electricity and the a unit price per kWh. I beleve taxes and a margin for the utility company are are inlcuded in that. Don't know about the rest!
Sorry if I’m being woefully ignorant but how can they make money if you pay the wholesale price and have such an easy way to switch back to capped tariff if wholesale price exceeds it?
Good point. Octopus do let you change from Agile back to the standard tariff the same day but you’ll have to wait 30 days if you want to go back to Agile again.
Is there any way you can share the drawings of your garage? I'm going through and redoing my garage and i want to get a local company to quote on the exact build you have. 🙏 thanks in advance i know you're busy
Hi Tom. Not sure what you mean by drawings? My garage was sold to me by Warwick Buildings so I don't have a design if that's what you mean?
@RoadandRacetv hi yes, in your videos you said you came up with the double garage design with the openings and eve dimensions to what you wanted. Even the top down plan view of the build would help me immensely as I live on the Isle of wight so I will not be able to use Warwick buildings for my build
Pop me over and email and I'll send over all I have. team@road-and-race.co.uk
The biggest problem with Ev s are they haven’t got a second hand value you tuber Mac master has got a Porsche Ev that has lost 60k in value in one year he paid 120k for it 😮
Was it a Taycan?
It appears so @@RoadandRacetv
kWh, not kW
Fuelling up yer motor , lol its a feckin accountants scientific hobby , oh dear . Well you no longer have go to your .ocal petrol station . Shame my insurance is quite steep going from a ice to a ev .
🤪 "PromoSM"