Coming up to three years of being an early EV adopter among friends and family, and therefore the first to come across hiccups.
New one today: heard something inside our zappi wall charger — the original version, rather than the current v2 — go slightly zap. The charger is still powered and the car acknowledges that it's plugged in, but no electricity actually goes in. So we'll rely on the (slower) mobile connector for now.
Upside, there is now a legitimate reason for a new zappi that supports monitoring and controlling via an app. Not that the original zappi couldn't be trusted at detecting excess solar generation and dynamically adjusting for self‐consumption — it did, whereas Tesla still refuses to add that feature to their own Wall Connector — but the extra smarts were always nice to have, and gives future options.
(Having vehicle‐to‐grid would also be a nice bit of future‐proofing. But as far as I know, it's still at the trial stage in Australia, and no charger with that feature is currently approved for general public sale and use.)
Might also ask about the possibility of getting this broken one repaired, and then reusing it somewhere.
