Recent content by Everest

I feel safer staying behind someone like that.

I would assume that 'maximum available discharge power' data is available via an OBD2 reader like car scanner? Not sure about MG, but that data is available for some EVs.

On a solar forum I frequent, whenever a discussion about panel position, angle or number of panels comes up in order to improve solar production, the best solution is often a chainsaw!

It's 28 days. Assuming the vehicle has had two services, then it would be interesting to see the recorded mileages at those services - i.e. whether it has been regularly used, or used for 1 year and not the next. If all checks out OK, then it's an almost new car with that mileage :)

To the mods... Can we block Australians talking about temperatures at this time of the year? ☃️

Hmmm... only 1000 miles on a 2.5 year old car rings alarm bells in my mind. Why has it done such a low mileage? That's like only 5 full charges of the battery. Was it a owned by a low mileage user doing a 33-mile monthly round trip to the supermarket? Or has it had an accident and/or...

2025? ;)

From what I've read on here, it's a lottery 🤷‍♀️ From taxi driver with 100,000 miles on an MG4, without issue... see; Highest mileage MG4 owner through to this poor chap with 2 years+ of hassle with his ZS... Not how I thought today was going to pan out...

Obviously wind will be a factor - but my gut feel is that it will provide minimal cooling of cells in comparison to solar heating. PV panels are not that reflective and only around 22% efficient at converting light into electricity - the remaining 78% of light energy will heat the cells up...

Oh yes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 :) I'm talking about cell temperature, not ambient. Cell temps will often get 20 to 30C hotter than ambient in full sun, so 40 to 50 in summer is likely.

(y) PV panels have a negative temperature coefficient of voltage (and hence power), typically around -0.3%/°C. In this weather (just sub-zero where you are?) then cell temp is likely to be only 5 to 10 degrees, compared to around 40 to 50 C in summer time. Hence, for a given irradiance, they...

Yeah! It's Caliban the Snow Leopard :)

Awww... we're not all like that - guess a VT request for the wife would cost too much ;) 🤷‍♀️ (only kidding, we know you love her)

Maybe he just spotted that you were wearing odd shoes and was too polite to say something ;)

No experience of the Buzz, but we're very impressed with our brace of VW ID EV's - I think they all use the underlying VW MEB platform. The 77kWh capacity in the '4' gives impressive range and the range of the 58kWh in the '3' is not to be sniffed at (y)