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@abzpaul @OctopusEnergy I’m in this boat too sadly.

Very crafty by @OctopusEnergy to increase their Fixed rate deals for IOG before they email their Variable Rate customers of their new rates. I asked them about fixing the other day (5.45p) and was told to wait for my variable deal. It came through at 5.2p but fixed is now 8p!

@Go_eVUK Ah. The ultimate 🤔 It’s got the ventilated seats. Got one for the Mrs a month or so back. She loves it. 👍

It’s here! What a cracker! 🤩

@sarah_go_green @RobinMoseley778 It’ll still be cheaper for me than most as I’m 99% off peak.

@notnarb77 @RobinMoseley778 No they were variable unless you fixed.

If you want a fixed rate for IOG, it's now 11.51p off-peak until the end of the month, and then I'd assume 8p per kWh after 1st April 2026 for the rest of your term. It is still very cheap for fueling an EV, but let's hope this conflict ends, and prices start to come down again. It is best for everyone. The variable rate post 1st July will be interesting.

@RobinMoseley778 @sarah_go_green I had no idea I was on variable till last week. 🤷‍♂️ Just assumed it was a rolling fix. My bad. 😞

@sarah_go_green We are still waiting to see what those on the variable IOG get offered from 1st April. The delay is very suspicious I’m afraid

@austhrottle @sydney_ev The Janus model looks great. A swap system. fullycharged.show/episodes/this-…

The problem is charging trucks - every charge point will need significant battery storage, probably 2-3x the capacity of whatever trucks they are charging - this allows for surges in demand - a decent substation to charge those batteries and higher voltage lines rather than std street power to deliver the energy required. This allows costs substantially more than an underground tank. Also many towns, even some suburbs don’t have the required high voltage lines to even tee off.

i get told a lot EVs wont work for trucks, they drive between cities, they do, vast majority of truck trips never leave the urban environment. If we can make this fleet #EV, there will be more than enough fuel left for the long haul uses, and farms. Cities will be far cleaner.

@Timoldland Guilty!

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@AutoPap Yeah, welcome to the danger zone. There are some interesting people out there!.

Gonna be a long night 😵‍💫 Mention EV and bored middle aged men get triggered.

So, if current estimates suggest proven reserves of crude oil may last about 50 years at current consumption rates. What will we do about Oil etc after it's all gone?

@flyingphil79 @AutoPap It's worth doing the maths on some of these deals. I have opted to buy now, though - we have 2 x second EV's, and these do us very nicely - circa 2p a mile running costs. (300-mile range)

@notnarb77 @AutoPap That is cheap

If it’s just a matter of transport, I think owning an EV now makes more sense than ever. Especially when it costs me approx £1.20 to charge for my week’s driving.

@flyingphil79 @AutoPap Everyone is different. There are some incredible Lease deals out there sometimes. I leased a small EV for £112+vat for 3 years. (I’ve seen bigger mobile phone bills).

@notnarb77 @AutoPap Cheap motoring! However I can only dream of the financial situation I’d need to be in to be happy to spend £25k on a vehicle that will need to do less than a 100 miles a week.

@Alan55381125 @JohnRosier @SharePickers To be fair, the batteries are almost better than the solar for us. We’ve got 4.5kw solar array but significantly shaded so reducing the performance by 25-40%. Still beneficial for us.

@JohnRosier @SharePickers We can only get 5 panels on our roof and 2 batteries, £10,000 payback 2044 I’ll probably be dead by then.

Two weeks ago we had solar panels and a battery fitted. We have just completed our first full week with the system. Our electric bill for the week commencing 10th March 2026 compared to the same week last year has dropped by 71% from £31.71 to £9.05. We also have not received our DNO cert yet which would allow us to sell back into the grid. On sunny days our battery has been full by 11:30am meaning we don’t yet benefit from the excess free energy being produced. We are now going to buy an electric car and fill it with free energy. If only all of the UK could do this, it would go along way to reducing the countries high energy costs. @octopusenergy @g__j

Can you imagine the new mpg structure. 🤣🤣🤣 Shits per furlong ?

@flyingphil79 @AutoPap That money would allow circa 70 miles for us in our EV’s. (1.2 / 0.07) x4

@AutoPap Out of interest how far does that £1.20 get you in range? It’s a pretty little thing, unusually for an EV.

@AutoPap @BrandoXfusion Combine that with your house use, and battery storage it gets even better. 😊 3x EV household here, (2k miles per month) battery storage and ASHP and we’re a little over £100 a month for everything.

@BrandoXfusion You have to have a home charger for it to make sense. I’m saving about £350 a month at the moment.

Hi @Keir_Starmer What happened to “Labour would freeze your council tax”? Or “Not a penny more on your council tax…No ifs, no buts”? Many people across the country are opening letters for higher council tax bills. Labour deserve the local election annihilation coming in May.

@bazza_7 @g__j Well. They are offering a £7500 grant to switch. Is that not a good enough sign?

@g__j Well, if they are that good, why don't the Government and/or you give heat pumps for free?

Gas boilers are not 95% efficient (in the real world they’re lucky to be 85)… Great to see the reception to our unique transparent dashboard showing the real world performance of all Octopus Cosy Heat Pumps installed in customers’ homes. Of course, some people who like burning stuff are always looking for “gotchas”. One of the most common is the assertion that “modern gas boilers are 95% efficient” This is horseshit. Just like cars hardly ever deliver the official miles per gallon figures, so boilers underperform too. Whilst an A rating boiler does indeed achieve 92% in lab tests, in the real world 80-83% efficiency is the norm for an “efficient” gas boiler (and older ones are much worse. Like 70-80%). There’s surprisingly little investigation into this - but here’s an official field study assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a75149b… If you’re interested - a condensing boiler typically needs to be set to 50 degrees - it then needs a return temperature of 30 degrees to ensure proper condensing - and needs to be running long enough to get into condensing mode —> characteristics pretty similar to a traditional heat pump in its most efficient mode! For which heat pumps are slammed by fossil fuel lovers. - it also needs thermostats set correctly and to be right-sized for a property whilst most are oversized Of course, if any boiler manufacturer wants to put their full fleet online so we see the real world data, we could compare to Octopus’s Cosy Heat Pumps. Being generous to boilers, if they have a typical efficiency of 0.85 and a real world Cosy has efficiency of 3.7, an Octopus heat pump is 4.35 times more efficient. With electricity being about 4.3 times more expensive than gas after April, this makes a heat pump cheaper to run. But a heat pump can use smart tariffs to access cheaper electricity, so it’s typically quite a lot cheaper to run - the real world data says someone on a heat pump has electricity at a 3.7 multiple per unit vs gas - so will be paying 17% less on average to use a heat pump than they would a gas boiler. Even more so if you can terminate the gas supply and save the standing charge (once you have a heat pump, you can get an induction hob and ditch the gas hob..) - another £130 annual saving from using a heat pump. Octopus’s huge investments in R&D and manufacturing are bringing costs down all the time, and you can see why the fossil industry is scared. Like canal owners looking at trains in the 19th century… Of course - Scandinavia’s already there. Norway is a huge gas producer but heat pumps are their dominant heating, whilst only 5% of homes have gas.

@StansburyDarren @g__j Im with you Darren. It’s a no brainer for us too. ASHP in 1980’s house. 3x EV’s Solar 16 kw batteries. Mostly 99% off peak use. I’ve convinced a few mates to switch.

@g__j Im constantly told on social media that heat pumps don’t work, nobody wants them. Same about EV’s, I have both, I’m on IOG and I have solar and battery storage. It’s an awesome set up.

@g__j @colinwalker79 Thanks to @OctopusEnergy and the HeatPump you guys installed last year, it cost us £128 to heat our 1980’s house. We’re a Daikin unit and stats to the end of Feb show COP 4.34 (combined). #HeatPumpLove

@BenGrahamUK It’s incredible. Just like water companies who’ve got guaranteed customers. You’d have thought the maths would have worked.

NCP has gone into administration. They’ve been running car parks since 1931, and somehow ended up £305m in debt. Surely the maintenance for a car park is simple: ticket machines, barriers, lights, and occasional cleaning. How can a business model literally based on people paying to park go bankrupt?

@duncsand Yep. 👍 - a great plan. I run the house (WFH) ASHP at 21° Charge 3x EV’s. 99% off peak.

When my home battery arrives, I'll be running my house at 5.49p/kWh the whole day.