Charging across Europe

[Archev]

Electric Harley?

Very much doubt it. I shall try to spread the word but these guys are tuned to the V twin soundtrack.

 

[rjhfandclf]

Very much doubt it. I shall try to spread the word but these guys are tuned to the V twin soundtrack.

... but it seems many of the EV manufacturers (inevitably led by the Americans) now deem it necessary to offer 'fake engine' noise as an option - but on a Harley or a screeming Yamaha ... perhaps not!

 

[EVsince2016]

Great news (for me anyway) is that Zunder app / RFID now works on all chargers in Portugal on the MOB.I system!

 

[EVsince2016]

Electroverse now work in Portugal on MOB.I too, they kept that quiet?

 

[rjhfandclf]

Destination - The Alps!

Guaranteed to enjoy, I am in no doubt.

Incidentally, my own (minor so far, by comparison) experience of the MG4 on sharp and narrow hill-climbing in the lower Pyrénées is that the recommendation to use sport mode is scarcely necessary, as it belts up everything anyway with max torque from the off!

Actually, as an aside, your post gave me something of a surge of jealousy, as it reminded me that my first trip to the Alps, in a blistering summer of 1967, was also in an MG … a smashing black with red leather 1962 Mk1 Midget (6466 ND), that had been well-tweaked with Formula Junior ‘bits’. My very young girlfriend and wife-to-be came with me (bravely – in two senses of the word in those distant days!) and we headed through Alsace to Basle to Geneva, then south via friends in Briançon (the highest town in Europe), then, after a 15-kms skip into Italy (just to be able to say we did), we headed down to Saint-Raphaël on the Med, before travelling north up the Rhone valley, Burgundy and Champagne for home … and yes, there is another theme there – apart from MG!

It would be fun to replicate the trip – in a ‘modern “MG”’, but not sure if it would be quite as exciting these days, nor if I now have the stamina. If I were some years younger …

Looking forward though to hearing your own experience i.d.c. … have fun.

 

[EVsince2016]

Guaranteed to enjoy, I am in no doubt.

Incidentally, my own (minor so far, by comparison) experience of the MG4 on sharp and narrow hill-climbing in the lower Pyrénées is that the recommendation to use sport mode is scarcely necessary, as it belts up everything anyway with max torque from the off!

Actually, as an aside, your post gave me something of a surge of jealousy, as it reminded me that my first trip to the Alps, in a blistering summer of 1967, was also in an MG … a smashing black with red leather 1962 Mk1 Midget (6466 ND), that had been well-tweaked with Formula Junior ‘bits’. My very young girlfriend and wife-to-be came with me (bravely – in two senses of the word in those distant days!) and we headed through Alsace to Basle to Geneva, then south via friends in Briançon (the highest town in Europe), then, after a 15-kms skip into Italy (just to be able to say we did), we headed down to Saint-Raphaël on the Med, before travelling north up the Rhone valley, Burgundy and Champagne for home … and yes, there is another theme there – apart from MG!

It would be fun to replicate the trip – in a ‘modern “MG”’, but not sure if it would be quite as exciting these days, nor if I now have the stamina. If I were some years younger …

Looking forward though to hearing your own experience i.d.c. … have fun.

I spent the last week of July / 1st week of August 1967 in the eastern Alps - Austria, Switzerland, Italy in a Bedford camper van. Apparently both me & my dad got heat stroke!

I was far too young to remember even going!

 

[rjhfandclf]

I spent the last week of July / 1st week of August 1967 in the eastern Alps - Austria, Switzerland, Italy in a Bedford camper van. Apparently both me & my dad got heat stroke!

I was far too young to remember even going!

I think perhaps the Bedford camper is something that I am not too jealous about! - but no doubt as kids it would have been wonderful. It certainly was hot that year. Driving towards Geneva, we didn't know whether to put the hood up or down from the heat.!

 

[EVsince2016]

I think perhaps the Bedford camper is something that I am not too jealous about! - but no doubt as kids it would have been wonderful. It certainly was hot that year. Driving towards Geneva, we didn't know whether to put the hood up or down from the heat.!

The next year we went back in his mini cooper van with windows & a half mini trailer.

That car was something, 100 mph with its braked trailer!

 

[rjhfandclf]

That car was something, 100 mph with its braked trailer!

The mind boggles - as they say ... Those were the days ... Wonderful mental images!

Four years earlier, in 1963, I did a similar trip with my best friend (eventual best man) in his mother's Triumph Herald Estate, and on one of his stints at the wheel through the Alps, I fortuitously woke up from my nap-break to realise we were on the wrong side of the road and heading straight for a sharp Alpine virage ... and oblivion ... while he was fast asleep at the wheel. He later got severely mossie-bitten and sun-burnt in our tent at Le Lavandou on the Med. Judgement on him, I always said ... but someone kind 'up there' woke me up at the right moment to pull the wheel and shout foul expletives at him!

So, thanks for the momories!

 

[EVsince2016]

@Rolfe here you go Morag

 

[siteguru]

@Rolfe here you go Morag

Is there supposed to be something attached/included in that post?

 

[EVsince2016]

Is there supposed to be something attached/included in that post?

No, it's as intended!

 

[siteguru]

?‍

Presumably in response to a PM then, as there's no post in this thread by @Rolfe since Jan 25th.

 

[EVsince2016]

?‍

Presumably in response to a PM then, as there's no post in this thread by @Rolfe since Jan 25th.

sort of

 

[tsedge]

My guess is that Rolfe wanted a pointer to this thread.

 

[Rolfe]

I was puzzled at first but it actually relates to an exchange on Twitter where I said I hadn't got as far as crossing the channel yet. ?

 

[EVsince2016]

I was puzzled at first but it actually relates to an exchange on Twitter where I said I hadn't got as far as crossing the channel yet. ?

The cat was the giveaway ?

 

[Rolfe]

It's not hard to work out. I use the same avatar everywhere. The cat's name was Rolfe.

 

[EVsince2016]

In my LEAF 1 30kW I did 12 Rapids, 24 Fast chargers & 2 Granny chargers on 6 Networks all in the UK (Eng+Cym).

In my LEAF 2 40kW I did 20 Rapids, 32 Fast chargers & 0 Granny chargers on 12 Networks in the UK (Eng+Cym) + 2 countries.

In my MG5 57kW I have so far done 61 Rapids, 10 Fast chargers & 4 Granny chargers on 29 Networks in the UK (Eng+Cym+Sco) + 5 counties.

This year I will add to all of those! (That's different ones, so chargers used many times)

MG4 has never been publicly charged!

 

[Archev]

In my LEAF 1 30kW I did 12 Rapids, 24 Fast chargers & 2 Granny chargers on 6 Networks all in the UK (Eng+Cym).

In my LEAF 2 40kW I did 20 Rapids, 32 Fast chargers & 0 Granny chargers on 12 Networks in the UK (Eng+Cym) + 2 countries.

In my MG5 57kW I have so far done 61 Rapids, 10 Fast chargers & 4 Granny chargers on 29 Networks in the UK (Eng+Cym+Sco) + 5 counties.

This year I will add to all of those! (That's different ones, so chargers used many times)

MG4 has never been publicly charged!

That’s a fine set of figures there.