I think I would need over 30kW of useable battery storage to meet our requirements, not sure on current battery costs but I’m fairly sure the payback would be slow. I would have no issue using 50% of a EV’s storage a day to run the house. Rarely travel far enough to need a fully charged car.
Forthcoming ix3 will have bi directional charging, FWIW…though i don’t have any knowledge / interest in the specs
Thanks, I have been looking and there are a quite a few that have it already. Seems to be the home charging hardware/software that is behind.
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Suspect it’s more about agreeing standards across the different sectors
Maybe so, at least progress is being made, including the Octopus/Nissan which I think you were possibly referring to upthread and now Renault
I think for the iX3 that you’ll have to use a bmw charger for the bi-directional thing to work.
It is the R5 that has my attention at the moment
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Can it really get this bad or is this just another anti EV scare story ?
Hint: The Times
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I saw one in the road a few days ago.
Probably nostalgia for the student’s weapon of choice back in the day, but 
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Fantastic looking thing.
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My ‘want’ back in the day was a 205 GTi, made do with an XS, still miss that car.
My first company car was a red Ford Escort XR3 (not the i; heaven forbid), followed by a red Renault 5 Turbo. Fact ! Great fun but a feckin death trap in the wet.
Very nice!!
I was allocated an XR3i when I joined a new firm in '88. Wasn’t a new one - they didn’t give those out until you had passed your probationary period.
Within a week it was “refinished” from black to bright orange.
I lived in a flat near Camberwell Green back then. The car was nicked from outside and torched on some waste land. It rained the next day.
By the time the plod asked me to go and identify it, the entire car was covered in rust. No galv back then!
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Legend
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Took the ID3 into Listers Stratford this morning, no 8 battery module has failed now. The good news is that the module is being delivered and should be fitted by the weekend.
The loan car they’ve given me is a Golf ETSI auto, it’s a very nice car but feels strange with no regen braking.The auto box is super smooth, I only know it’s changed by the tacho reading. What I find a bit weird is that when you lift off, the revs drop to zero, almost as if you’re coasting.
Just had a phone call from the dealership, the battery module is arriving today and the car should be ready to collect tomorrow 
This is a setting that DSG boxes have had for a while but on mine, it has to be selected when you want it, each time the car is restarted whereas it sounds like it’s a default in the newer Golf.
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