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Can you elaborate on how to achieve that in freezing temperatures?

I gather it doesn’t work with the car in READY either, then it’s not related to a low aux battery voltage unless your CCU has gone faulty?

Pretty much as expected

Mary was well aware that the car wasn’t locked, but took a chance, did I mention the sales were on? In hindsight, I could have locked it with the app but ‘there was nothing in there to take anyway?’

I thought I read that somewhere but can’t find the source, must have been mistaken? The Kia Sportage Hybrid has no dedicated 12V battery but doesn’t use a DC/DC either..

There are 3 cars in the household, thankfully all came with a spare key

Mary (not her real name), started her MG5 to hit the sales in town, but just before driving off she realised her purse was missing. She got back into the house, dropped her keys on the counter, went upstairs to get her money and off she went. It’s only when the car refused to start coming home...

It’s already happening, some EV models use a DC/DC only..

Agreed, but my understanding is that although GivEnergy battery packs are indeed ‘stackable’ they require proprietary communication to be used. Supplying 50ish volts on the second port might therefore not work. Yes, but that leaves still plenty of time when the sun doesn’t shine and the car is...

GivEnergy doesn’t seem to support any 3rd party components. One possible solution is to add a changeover switch on the inverter’s PV (DC) input. Connect one side to your PV panels, the other to an external DC power supply ‘run’ by the car’s V2L.

Unfortunately not https://ev-database.org/uk/car/1526/MG-MG5-EV-Long-Range

Did the same on my MG5 FL..

None, as long as the DC/DC is operating (READY or charging). Loosing the DC/DC when driving would shut the car down immediately, in that case the 12V acts as a backup There are indeed two power sources but they operate at different times..

I have a battery monitor device installed and it measures above 12.65V at all times? What’s the indicated SoC of the aux battery?

Any chance you got to measure the battery voltage after 6.5h? What was the ambient temperature tonight?