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I mean since you haven't yet got the car to know how your driving style will actually affect the Miles per kWh you can't know if 3 equivalent charges a month will work out, so I'd run your calculations with 2 miles (winter), 3 miles and 4 miles (summer) to give yourself a feeling for the range...

I'm running a 44 kWh Gen 1 ZS and I'm clocking between 140 and 190 kWh per week this last month and I have hardly been any where

This tariff is aimed at Heat Pump households to be fair and the Cosy Rate of 20.23 p with COP of 3 makes it 6.74 p/kWh of heating. Then avoid running the ASHP during the Peak Rate 53.96 p period you are beating the cost of Gas at 10 p+

If I'm not very much mistaken the Zappi is and always has been a compliment "Smart" charger (more correctly a Smart EVSE - Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment). The regulations are tightening and there is a very helpful description to clarify what has already been said is at the link below. The...

From an insider I know who works on this very thing the total demand of EV owners isn't creating a peak in fact it is useful in moving demand from the high demand, 5 pm to 6 pm a time, which otherwise commuters returning home might otherwise plug in their EVs and charge and which would coincide...

When you are paying full rate maybe yes. But since you have opted to charge using a concessionary off-peak and take advantage of highly discounted rates it is only reasonable that there could be some degree of "Load Management" for the sake of grid stability. A greatly miss understood aspect of...

Oops. My Gen 1 ZS is due for its 1st MOT at the beginning of January! I do hope my brakes are ok? I've not noticed any untoward braking performance and I haven't any visible disk scoring having done 21,000 miles. I think that driving style can make a big difference here because if you always...

I would also suggest selecting KERS 1 to reduce the regen effect and use the friction brakes more heavily. EVs are more prone to sticking brake calipers than ICE cars since the friction brake less than ICE cars. Without regularly operating the friction brakes, there is little to no movement of...

Thanks for your Real World figures, but don't forget that, the figures I quoted from EV-Database.UK were as I said and is stated in the footnotes of the table were for worst case at minus 10 Centigrade

Delivery time of 16 weeks is about standard for the MG4 anywhere, but check online, you could find some for immediate delivery or within a few weeks because dealers seem to allocate batches of MG4s of various specs and then need to match them with the orders/interest they have on their book. So...

Possibly in city where there is lots of opportunity for regen? Dealers should emphasise that WLTP is just like any ICE car's fuel consumption figure a comparative figure purely for the comparison of one vehicle against another and not what a driver should actually expect to get. Can I just say I...

Unfortunately, I'm not available for December's MGEVs Community Podcast on December 21st at 7:30 pm, but although it is a Christmas edition, I'm sure there will be questions and hopefully some answers as its mission is to "discuss all MG electric vehicles, hoping to inform and entertain you, for...

Thanks for the clarification. It just isn't what they said back in August. Just like what was said about holding KERS preferences etc but that's another can of worms for another stream.

The Math is correct but having a 32 amp cable doesn't mean that the chargers and wall boxes are designed to operate at or deliver 7.36 kW. It is more likely it will be somewhere between 7 and 7.2 kW. Simerly back in the day when 16 amp home charging points were the norm they were variously...

Correct me if I'm wrong but The MG4 3-phase charger is a 11 kW isn't it? so 3x 3.6 kW whereas the 22 kW as in the Zoe and IONIQ 5 is 3x 7.2 kW.

I have been told by more than one dealer that MG says some cars were overfilled and also that the modified breather was an extended breather. Also, they said that there was no plan to recall or replace all breathers just those when a problem was reported. Now if it turns out that there is a...

I stand corrected. But this is unfortunate then for Trophy owners. Surely when you hook up your 64 kWh Trophy at home to a 7 kW single-phase wall box and you have got an 11 kW 3-phase charger only one of the phases is being fed with AC isn't it? Or have MG devised a plan to couple two of the 3.6...

It sounds to me like the very commonly reported issue with the reduction gear oil. There has been "a fix" for this notified to dealers so if your dealer is looking blank at you then they are not keeping up with the updates from MG Motors UK. It is also reported that technically this isn't a...

If you are an Octopus customer then there is a really nifty tool I have discovered which allows you to look back at your past usage over various periods and make a comparison between them using data from your historic 30 min Smart Meter readings. Go to Octopus Energy Comparison For example, I...

Note UK Spec MG4 only have Single Phase 7 kW onboard chargers and in mainland Europe where 3 Phase Domestic supplies are more common then European Spec MG4 will have 11 kW 3 phase chargers. So whether you use a 3-phase type 2 cable or not with a UK Spec MG4 then you'll still only get a maximum...