More Panels, Add Battery, or wait for Politics?
Hi all,
We recently became a 2x EV family. In the past we charged our first low range eV from diverted solar, but with the second eV our 5kW solar system isn't providing enough charge for both. We'll likely get through summer but autumn/winter/spring will be a challenge.
We have some money available that we could use to upgrade the system, either taking it to ~10kW, or adding a battery. The other option is to pay off a reasonable chunk of mortgage and wait for the next govt's solar legislation to kick in and hopefully make things cheaper or at least reduce the interest rate on financed systems.
I'm working through the modelling on the solar/battery/mortgage payment options, but it gets pretty complex with time of use plan cost forecasting, etc.
Keen to hear what others would do in this situation.