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Is that what Musk told you? 😆

Even within their own limits, surely it would still be theoretically “possible” for the chimps to get it right first time, and accomplish the feat?

Who or what is a Huel? 🤔

My wife reminded me she played John Denver’s wife in “Oh, God” with George Burns. (It was better than it sounds)

Not really relevant, whichever end you look from. For historical matches, I believe* they only use Y-DNA (direct male line) and mtDNA (direct female line), as Autosomal DNA (your typical Ancestry and MyHeritage tests) is too diluted after so many generations (ie. sharing mum's and dad's DNA). At...

Correct, beyond about five generations back, the certainties are too low. The ethnicity estimates relate to 500-1000 years ago, so no real use for finding ancestors. The 23&me thing seems to need a premium payment, so don’t think I’ll be bothered with that!

Bugger. Which of our players are you?

Please don’t do that 😲

If solar drops below the minimum 1.4kw level for charging, my system just pauses rather than drawing from the grid - one of the many settings in my Zappi charger (the default, I believe). I only got my system in mid-July, but there were plenty of days it was worth plugging in for a mini boost...

You're unlikely to power the car by solar for at least six months of the year, after powering the house during the day, but you'll make a few pence exporting the excess solar to the grid. With a battery, you'll be able to power the house for the other 18 hours each day with insufficient solar...

We don’t all charge our cars every night, any more than you fill up with petrol every day. And when we get V2G, we can smooth out grid demand even more.

Probably horses for courses, like the EVs themselves.

There’s a huge difference between running my full house off my 14 roof panels, and keeping my car running. When my car is plugged in to solar, it needs a “surplus” of 1.4kw available (electrical regulations) before it will even start charging. Fine in the summer, but you’re not going to do much...

Looks nice. Of course, the car won't be plugged in at home all day, so the house battery is still justified.

There's always something better just around the corner! With the EV and the solar, we did so much research that we were starting to confuse ourselves. In the end, the best way to find out what I need is to dive in head first (and make a few mistakes, accepting things won't be "perfect"). Only...

Yeah, the Renault 5 EV sounds like a leap forward. We have solar and a 13.5kwh home battery, but EV batteries are obviously bigger and potentially far more flexible with V2G. (And, presumably, vehicle-to-house?) Will be interesting to see how well it integrates with existing systems.

You might even get away with a £200 13amp "granny charger" if the battery is really small. :lolol: