Recent content by quilkin

March looking good so far! 3 days, 3 return trips, total 88 miles, average speed 25mph, average temp 10C, averaged 4.7 miles/ kWh. Only managed 3.6 in December (my first month with the car). No data for Jan and Feb as I wasn't able to drive (hip op).

I've done a bit of reseach and it seems that an 11kW EVSE will only provide ~3.5 kW for a single-phase cable. Is that correct? If so I was ill-advised as to what cable to buy by the supplier.

The cable says '3G6 + 1 x 0.75' . It is a single-phase cable.

It was at 74% -

I just tried my new MG5 with a new type 2 cable at a public charging station for the first time (I've charged at home with teh granny cable without a problem). I'm going on a long trip at the weekend so wated to make sure it all worked. So I plugged into the 'Shell Recharge' point at my local...

Thanks, I have found the battery setting bar now, I must have done something different today. But I haven't got this to work, it still flashes after holding down 'OK'. And today it was worse; going from a 60 zone to a 70 zone the system didn't know and flashed the 'national limit' sign at me...

Sounds great. Going a bit off-topic but I'd be really interested to know about your inverter and its connections to the car.

I think I might just use Google directions with Android Auto. Speed limits on there seem pretty good, and many temporary limits are known about as well.

I've had my MG5 for 2 weeks now and have been charging it from the 'granny' charger. I could install a proper Type 2 charger but it's going to cost around £1000. I can charge the car to 50% overnight with the granny (it delivers 2.2 kW). 50% of charge per day (~100 miles) is more than enough for...

Today the system missed a 'National Speed Limit' sign after a 50 zone, so it kept flashing '50' at me for the next ten miles as I was doing 55. Very annoying, I wish I could turn it off.

On my SE there's no picture of a car on the Energy Management screen, and no battery seting bar. I can change charge times-of-day but not max charge level. So SE must be different to Trophy.

Ading one more newbie question to my thread - hope that's OK 😀 In the summer I hired a Polestar 2 and that recommned charging to only 80% unless about to go on a long trip. This apparently prolongs battery life (my phone does the same). There's no such apparent setting for the MG5 (SE LR)...

Maybe, but the last car I hired knew about them perfectly, from the satnav data. Reading signs is a c**p way of getting speed limits, for all sorts of reasons - e.g. slip roads on many motorways have speed signs which are much less than motorway speed, and are in line-of-sight of the front camera.

Excellent article! So MG5 is near the best of the bunch, Good to know. I will perhaps find out for myself when I drive 280 miles each way either side of Christmas.

Thank you for the details. Do you know why it's kept at +10 degrees, rather than higher? Is this unique to the MG5? Does this mean that loss of cold-weather range for the MG5 is worse than other EVs?