Hyundai Ioniq 5

[Joeboy]

No update.

I'll call and chase if I haven't heard anything in "week 6" when it is supposed to be built.

There was an online portal to track your order but VW took it down before xmas...

What date did you order it ?

[Joeboy]

Worth digging down to see if you are losing any spec from the original order due to the semi conductor shortage, don't get caught out?

[Joeboy]

21.979kW!

[Andy]

21.979kW!

I don't know why but I always get confused on the context of these posts It takes a few moments to get what you mean. So are we all having a competition to see who can get closest to their fuse rating for sustained periods without it blowing? How many amps was that and the voltage in the house at that point?

[Joeboy]

21.979kW!

I don't know why but I always get confused on the context of these posts It takes a few moments to get what you mean. So are we all having a competition to see who can get closest to their fuse rating for sustained periods without it blowing? How many amps was that and the voltage in the house at that point?

Yes but also maybe. I shall not sully myself by a descent to momentary low voltage Thus I claim the shaky crown of21.979x240=91.5A. Look, this has absolutely no point to it other than 'wanna play'?
I may well be overexuberant due to my new 100A rating yet feel no guilt.

[Andy]

Look, this has absolutely no point to it other than 'wanna play'?
I may well be overexuberant due to my new 100A rating yet feel no guilt.

I was the same when I got my new charger and fuse. It’s good to know what it takes to get near the limit. Diversity only gets you so far these days I think.

[Joeboy]

Look, this has absolutely no point to it other than 'wanna play'?
I may well be overexuberant due to my new 100A rating yet feel no guilt.

I was the same when I got my new charger and fuse. It’s good to know what it takes to get near the limit. Diversity only gets you so far these days I think.

The big thing for me is the Ripple potential. We all as individuals have only so much space or inadvertent limitations to install personal gear. Ripple takes that away. We have already set ourselves (I hope) as carbon neg with WT1. WT2 will push us over for sure (I deliberately aim for vague in this which has the benefit of I go in heavy) .
I genuinely see ourselves buying into this time and again as it develops. Once I've sorted out (and worked out) our remaining carbon count here at casa de I'll buy Ripple until I've went beyond our flights abroad too. Not the cleanest approach, yet effective and ahead of 99.9% of the.other humes on the blue marble.

That's my plan and it is widely open for discussion and advice as is diversity I hope? Cheers!

[GarethC]

While completely laudable, Ripple -seemed- quite a complicated and expensive way to for me to help fund the build out of renewable electricity generation and offset our carbon. Maybe I'm missing something.

Also, since we don't burn much coal in the UK now, I wanted to fund renewable build out somewhere that did. Bigger carbon pay off per pound spent, and helping reduce the global use of the nasty stuff in developing countries where the power stations are particularly toxic.

So in the end I'm plumping for EU accredited carbon offsetting schemes. For £35 per month we'll be more than -triple- offsetting our household emissions. Sure I won't own anything or make any kind of financial return, but I'm fine with that. I'll feel like I'm doing something to redress my historic emissions too. Might up the monthly payment to £50 and make it 5 times our emissions if we can afford it.

[AE-NMidlands]

While completely laudable, Ripple -seemed- quite a complicated and expensive way to for me to help fund the build out of renewable electricity generation and offset our carbon. Maybe I'm missing something.

Also, since we don't burn much coal in the UK now, I wanted to fund renewable build out somewhere that did. Bigger carbon pay off per pound spent, and helping reduce the global use of the nasty stuff in developing countries where the power stations are particularly toxic.

So in the end I'm plumping for EU accredited carbon offsetting schemes. For £35 per month we'll be more than -triple- offsetting our household emissions. Sure I won't own anything or make any kind of financial return, but I'm fine with that. I'll feel like I'm doing something to redress my historic emissions too. Might up the monthly payment to £50 and make it 5 times our emissions if we can afford it.

I don't see how Ripple could have been made less complicated. We put up the money, Ripple use specialists to do the planning and construction,Ripple then takes over the generation but subcontracts the billing and crediting to another specialist. It's a shame that Octopus who mostly (only?) sell renewable energy have to pay into the fund designed to encourage Renewables (which I have a feeling may not be the case with WT2) but I can't see how we can get out of paying to use the grid.
I am deeply suspicious of offsetting schemes, the fixers and "accountants" generally milking activities like this and ensuring that the money from well-intentioned people ends up in undeserving pockets.
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[nowty]

GarethC, whilst I agree Ripple is complicated, I don't agree its expensive as onshore wind power is the cheapest renewable power in the world, so I cannot see how to offset any cheaper. And I understand the scheme, other offsetting schemes I could be just being ripped off.

For £35 per month over the WT1 25 year operating life, that's over £10k and could have bought you 6kW of the turbine which would generate you 16,000 kWh per year or 400,000 kWh over its lifetime AND would have handed you back over £1.5k in its first year of operation !

And whatever you do not use yourself, that's the carbon offsetting, like exporting from solar PV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_e ... _by_source