27 February

The beauty of a home battery is that you get to control your energy costs. As an example, I program the battery to top up if needed between midnight and 6am, when we get super cheap electricity from the grid, and also between 11 and 2 during the day, when we get electricity for free from the grid. That will be useful in winter, if we have long dark days and less solar. It will mean in those darker periods we can still use cheap power stored in the battery. Even when the sun isn’t shining. You can see here also the overnight top up of the car. My trip to and from Bathurst yesterday, plus some driving within Bathurst, cost us $1.70. Many ute egos were harmed during that trip too. They were a bit cute with all their revving and gear-shifting, as they disappeared into the rearview mirror.