The energy crisis

I think Octopus are losing the plot.

I got an email today saying they have "accepted" the meter readings for my transfer to them.

Great .... except I havent requested any transfer to them.
Even better, they sent this message to my ancient IRESA email address.
They went out of business almost 5 years ago.

Best part is I went to their [Octopus] site, requested a password reset on that old address, and it worked !

I have no idea WTF are they doing ..........

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by Paul

I think Octopus are losing the plot.

I got an email today saying they have "accepted" the meter readings for my transfer to them.

Great .... except I havent requested any transfer to them.
Even better, they sent this message to my ancient IRESA email address.
They went out of business almost 5 years ago.

Best part is I went to their [Octopus] site, requested a password reset on that old address, and it worked !

I have no idea WTF are they doing ..........

On the site or app it should list your meters ID numbers do they match your current meters?

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Paul

I think Octopus are losing the plot.

I got an email today saying they have "accepted" the meter readings for my transfer to them.

Great .... except I havent requested any transfer to them.
Even better, they sent this message to my ancient IRESA email address.
They went out of business almost 5 years ago.

Best part is I went to their [Octopus] site, requested a password reset on that old address, and it worked !

I have no idea WTF are they doing ..........

Were you with Bulb? If so, maybe they've sent you - and probably thousands of others - the wrong message.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Were you with Bulb? If so, maybe they've sent you - and probably thousands of others - the wrong message.

I was (I left them 3 weeks ago).
However, as I said, the email address they used is not my Bulb account address, its a very old IRESA address.

[Sephiroth]

@RichardCoulter

It can't be achieved on current form. People are twigging that they'll be caught short on long journeys, particularly when the en-route garages have their chargers already engaged with a half-hour wait or, worse, broken.

Public demand for hybrid petrol vehicles will likely force the government's hand to relent on the deadline date.

Trouble is, if the government doesn't smell the coffee soon enough, manufacturers will have reduced or stopped petrol car manufacturing.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Paul

I was (I left them 3 weeks ago).
However, as I said, the email address they used is not my Bulb account address, its a very old IRESA address.

Guessing they got an out dated bulb database, maybe that email address was given as part of a previous WHD information? As the providers do work with the DWP for WHD.

[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

@RichardCoulter

It can't be achieved on current form. People are twigging that they'll be caught short on long journeys, particularly when the en-route garages have their chargers already engaged with a half-hour wait or, worse, broken.

Public demand for hybrid petrol vehicles will likely force the government's hand to relent on the deadline date.

Trouble is, if the government doesn't smell the coffee soon enough, manufacturers will have reduced or stopped petrol car manufacturing.

Uh huh…. Not sure where you got that from, however

https://heycar.co.uk/blog/electric-c...nd-projections

Also, The vast majority (circa 95%) of people that are EV owners charge solely at home

Most EV sat nav now comes with route planning inc charge stops which also includes real time availability of chargers , there’s also 3rd part apps such as zapmap & Chargemap

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To add, I’m not proposing that EV’s in their current form work for everyone BUT in time things will improve making ownership acceptable to the masses.

In my car I can go from 5% to 80% charge in 21 minutes on the fastest chargers, which I generally only need to use if I’m driving somewhere like Maidenhead. Put the car in charge, nip to the loo, grab a coffee and a cigarette and I’m pretty much good to go.

Never had a problem with a charger being out of order or unavailable

Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

Never had a problem with a charger being out of order or unavailable

Atm ....

The vast majority of cars dont need them, that will change.

[SnoopZ]

What worries me about an EV battery is the cost of replacement in an accident if the battery is damaged, something between 6k-10k I've heard mentioned, this could mean alot of cars get written off by the insurance companies.

[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by Paul

Atm ....

The vast majority of cars dont need them, that will change.

That's fair, the infrastructure has to be scaled to keep up with as demand increases. At the moment we're way behind certain other countries such as the the Netherlands.

Tesla have already opened their supercharging network to Audi, now there are plans to open it further by the use of a 'magic connector'

[SnoopZ]

So I was moved over to Octopus from Bulb, no issues just had my £67 monthly DD taken from my bank(still called Bulb on the DD though) and also been debited the £67 for the energy support scheme.

No actual bill yet for the energy used.

[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

What worries me about an EV battery is the cost of replacement in an accident if the battery is damaged, something between 6k-10k I've heard mentioned, this could mean alot of cars get written off by the insurance companies.

Again, that's fair comment, however, insurance companies seem to be writing of more and more petrol/diesel cars when they suffer from less and less damage.

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

Again, that's fair comment, however, insurance companies seem to be writing of more and more petrol/diesel cars when they suffer from less and less damage.

My friend whom has had no end of problems with charging his car ,has gone back to petrol saying he will change back again once many more points are available. Looked for points to charge next time I go to see friends , totally hopeless , can't see it changing anytime soon , routes to quite to warrant them , perhaps a modern pony express model would work !!!!!

[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by Itshim

My friend whom has had no end of problems with charging his car ,has gone back to petrol saying he will change back again once many more points are available. Looked for points to charge next time I go to see friends , totally hopeless , can't see it changing anytime soon , routes to quite to warrant them , perhaps a modern pony express model would work !!!!!

There’s always going to be cases such as that, but they’re not the norm infrastructure has to be improved in certain areas of the country and as EV’s continue to increase share it will, the tipping point will come

[Mr K]

Still don't think most folks realise their bills are going to shoot up again in April. Warmer weather and lower wholesale energy prices, they might of thought different.