Recent content by Everest

£30,000+ for a Mini :eek: Sir Alec Issigonis will be turning in his grave.

Oh... I must be old then, best was a Jenson Interceptor in my day.

Pretty much the same for us. Convenience of never having to fill up at a filling station was a big plus. (y) for sure - biggest reason for us was we have more solar than we can do anything with for much of the year (though not this week!), so free to charge up for 8 months of the year.

Co-pilot missed depicting the inevitable bird poo on the MG 🤷‍♀️

(y) makes sense. Obviously EV charging stations could reduce their capacity ongoing charges by deploying more local battery storage - but that would increase up-front costs. Guess there's a sweet spot there between max kVA charges capacity vs. cost of local storage.

do share

I have absolutely no idea what you two are referring to 🤷‍♀️

(y) we do that as well (though probably about every 3 months with our low mileages) - it helps identify early signs of uneven wear too.

Don't MG4 drivers get wrist ache these days ?

Agree, but in my case, the destinations I have been to since owning an EV didn't have charging facilities. Apart from holidays abroad, the longer trips I have made have been:- a) relatives with no EV charging point b) a university for drop off / pick up c) a trip to purchase or view something...

Quite scary to think of all those vehicle out there with less than 1.6mm of tyre depth driving around in our wet and slippery roads :(

Ditto. But then one has the odd longer trip, like yours to CP, when you could have just done it on one charge if they didn't have chargers there.

Think you should be looking at 2022 sales, for MOT's in 2025 - which, presumably, will be lower still.

IME, range is not all about doing a long distance in one go. A few months ago, we drove to outer London, stopped at the destination to do what we needed to do there (which was not a place I could charge at). On the way back, stopped to eat our packed lunch in countryside, and then detoured...

DVS? Too many TLA's!