Recent content by kevinji

By way of an update, I have just been made redundant but may be employed by another company and they are trying to novate the lease to the other company. So this is a downside to salary sacrifice that I did not consider.

Fortunately I don’t have a contributory pension scheme as I’m close to retirement. But good to know.

I regularly drive London to south Devon. I prefer A303 route as I have found it more reliable for chargers. I tend to take a short stop at Solstice Park services. Plenty of chargers. That may be an option on the way back. On the way to Looe as other people have said Exeter Services or Salmons...

I had previously leased a Mercedes before so was inclined to lease as buying new almost involves significant depreciation so I did not look at the option of purchasing cash or PCP. With salary sacrifice I am effectively paying just over £300 pcm (including all maintenance and parts) for £15k...

I don't power down to charge on a public charger. Just stop, put parking brake on, plug it in and in most cases I have to tap 'start charging' on the infotainment screen or the MG app and of course pay/enable on charger I am using. You can have heating/aircon on and anything else but obviously...

I set up scheduled charging mainly using the iSMART app but you must remember to tap save and wait to see the response as it says “success” or fail. Sometimes it asks for my PIN code. But I have found that I also need to set my podpoint to scheduled charging as well. Once set up on the podpoint...

Thats why you cannot sign up to Octopus intelligent because MG4 does not support it. I don’t know about the Ohme chargers. I saw an article a while back as basically it is a national trial of this approach to balancing the grid.

The information on various websites is confusing about which dual tariffs you can use with which EV and chargers. As I don’t have compatible charter/EV (podpoint/MG4 Trophy). I am on Octopus Go but it works well charging between 00:30 and 04:30 @9p per kWh. You have to go on their standard...

Maybe. It’s Hertfordshire / Greater London border.

I have MG4 Trophy. Full NCD. age 65. Drive 15k miles pa.. I have had car since June and after haggling my premium is £2,059.91 pa. I’ve never paid more than £900 for my insurance before for other cars including CRz and Merc A200, DS3 Sport. Every comparison website quotes were even higher. All...

I have had heat pump and new HW cylinder installed by Octopus and after the grant it only cost me £620. I cannot praise octopus highly enough. They were great. The system really works with modern well insulated properties such as our house which is insulated better than building regs. The hot...

Yes that’s my experience but I had already had my charger installed by podpoint who said their smart charger was compatible with octopus but when I switched to octopus they said it wasn’t. Such a scam because you have to go on octopus variable first before switching to their EV rates. They have...

Are you sure the cable is genuine. I tried lots of ‘certified’ cables but wouldn’t connect. . I had similar problem until someone got me a cable from an Apple shop. Now no problem connecting my iPhone. I have a Trophy.

Tried two so far with my new trophy and no problems with either. In fact got 140kW on a Shell recharger so got plenty in the time it took to 1) stare at dial hurtling up to 140, 2) have a pee, ( in garage not by the charger) 3) chose and buy refreshments in garage —- then I was good to go...