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Beat the energy crisis: The ultimate EV home-charging setup tested

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We fit a a hybrid solar system to our garage to see how much money we can save on charging our Kia e-Niro

Installing solar panels may have seemed like an expensive luxury to most of us some time ago. But now it seems like a way out of the fuel crisis hitting the UK.
I had made the switch to EVs in 2021, and although it wasn’t part of a master plan, suddenly the idea of turning the house into a mini power station became strangely compelling.
If a solar system is producing more energy than can be

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