Recent content by slith

Thanks for the responses. I did not have intelligent battery heating turned on. The charger doesn't give any information about the AC voltage or current draw since it just has 3 LEDs on it to indicate, power, charging and fault. I checked it 5 times over a 24 hour charge period, sometimes very...

So, I just finished a 220 km trip in my new MG4 Long Range. I still have enough charge to get home, but decided to trickle charge it back to full over the next day. The car came with an MG branded portable charger that plugs into a standard GPO. When I connected it, to my surprise it charges at...

I'm not concerned with the discrepancy between the 10.4 kW the charger claims and the 9.6 kW the car is indicating. I understand there are AC to DC losses. My concern is that the car is not accepting the full 16 A, 230 V for 11 kW which it indicates in the specifications. The charger tells the...

I have had an MG4 77 kWh for a few weeks now. I am charging it for the first time to go on a long trip. The specifications say the charger should charge at 11 kW, 3-phase. My Evnex X22 (3-phase) charger says the charging rate is 10.4 kW. The car says it is charging at 9.6 kW. I cannot see the...

Something tells me that if anyone will, it will be the Chinese manufacturers that will be the first to bring out a $30K mid-sized EV. Hyundai and Kia are more expensive than Tesla. To be honest, a decent quality mid-sized ICE car is a struggle to find these days. Right now in Australia, if you...

I have no evidence to support this, but thrashed performance EVs would probably be in better overall condition than thrashed performance ICE cars. Drawing high current from an EV battery for 5 seconds at a time isn't going to be a problem for it. Combustion engines lose power over time, even...

Getting 0-100 of 5.6s at 80% seems completely wrong. I'm assuming this is of course being done on level roads with reasonable traction and reasonable temperature. Demonstrate it to them. Insist on comparing their demonstrator to yours. Perhaps try another dealer. Another MG dealer may be more...