Owning an EV opens up a lot of questions once it meets the rest of the house. Here I write about charging, tariffs, automation and what I discover while trying to make the car work with the home energy setup.
Electric Vehicles
I've been driving our Peugeot e-308 GT for ten months and 10,000 miles. Here's what it's actually like to live with — the real-world range, what it costs to charge at home, driving to France, and the one frustration I didn't expect.
Smart Home
We needed to stop Intelligent Octopus Go from draining our Powerwall during daytime EV charges — without interfering with Octopus's control. Here's how we built our first Home Assistant automation to solve it.
Electric Vehicles
After a year of connectivity issues and failed overnight charges with our PodPoint 3, we switched to a Hypervolt Pro 3.