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I've gone with First for Solar but after ordering in March 2022 before the VAT reduction when their order book went made and lead times became elastic so I'm still waiting on the installation of 12 x 400-watt PV Panels = 4.8 kW 6 x Optimisers 7.8 kWh Fox ESS (Barrteryies and 3 kW Inverter) I...

Just a word of warning as discussed elsewhere on the forum it isn't advisable for battery health to charge a Li-Ion Battery (which is the chemistry type used in the 64 kWh mg presently) to 100% and then not use the vehicle for more than a matter of a few hours. It is down to the chemistry. By...

Octopus Energy are partnered with a number of providers one of which is LUX Power. LUX have a scalable "Works with Agile" product for Solar & Storage solutions, but also a configuration designed to be Battery Storage Only without any Solar. This configuration they call LUX Power "Squirrel"...

I couldn't get a seat height which would allow me to exit the driver's side without wiping the back of my jeans on the door sill plastic trim. I can imagine how that would go down with the misses in the winter when it is coated in much thrown up from the front wheel. I'm ursing myself that I...

Most dealers will fully charge the HV Battery to show that Wow the range is 270/281 but that would not give a fair indication of the normal driving and regen characteristics in the 20 minutes most will give you behind the wheel

Just clocked over the 20k miles yesterday on my Gen 1 ZS. The average just driving a mix of every kind of road over the past 3384 miles, 65.49 hrs, 23 Av mph 3.9 miles/kWh. This average of 3.9 miles/kWh has been pretty consistent for the past nearly 3 years. obviously, In summer, on a longer...

When the ZS EV first launched there were a number of little things which affected lots of vehicles and there were several visits to the dealer to resolve these things. I had an early ZS and suffered from issues with the Head-unit Infotainment system issues and had the head unit replaced twice...

What exactly is the nature of the oil leak? I presume it is a transmission oil leak but is it from one of the drive shafts, {boots or seals} or transmission/motor casing? Or at the other end of the car and is coming from the steering rack? Maybe from an owner's point of view, it is difficult to...

Firstly welcome to the forum. Two things which strike me is that you say in your description of the type of driving you do that it includes motorway driving. If you have been driving on the motorway and this trip was shortly before charging to 100% so that the GOM included those driven miles...

"6 months left if that before I'll loose the grant"? remember grants are on the order you have if made before they cut it and if you switch you're waving goodbye to the grant and the glass sunroof.

To be fair we are waiting on the facelift MG 5 since forever and Norway has had them for some time

I'm diliberating on whether I should bring forward my Octopus Go contract renewal before October 1st to secure the current 40p/7.5p rates and cancel my existing 24.5p/5p 10 weeks early. Who knows what the Go rates will be after October 1st. My daughter did hers last week instead of waiting until...

Thanks for sharing but it does frustrate me that I ordered in early March a 4.8 kW PV, Hybrid inverter with 7.8 kWH battery which ought to have been installed and commissioned by the end of May, but one thing after another wasn't available. 22 September install was missed because the optimisers...

19p Av that's interesting. I've been checking Agile prices on the Octopus App throughout the year and very rarely seen plunge pricing in action taking Agile below the max since wholesale prices have been so high. Lots of people have moved to Go for that reason and when i spoke to Octopus they...

I wouldn't have thought so. The magnetism in an EV is confined within the Motor/Generator to maximise the efficiency of the motor. Although the magnets in an EV's traction motor are powerful, the magnetic field is directed across a hair-breadth of a gap. The smaller the gap where the field is...

Is Octopus Go and other TOU Tariffs for EV Owners Dead? I have my "Fixed" Go contract ending in December which of course after the "Government's new price cap guarantee" kicks in on October 1st. The only information I can glean from anywhere is that when Fixed price contracts be adjusted down...

Alloy wheels are lighter and stronger than Steel and have lower unsprung weight. The Aero covers provide a better aerodynamic performance and ca reduce drag, especially on the motorway in the order of 5% to 6% which on long-range version could be 15 miles more range. Remember that the MG4 Trophy...

No I wouldn't have thought so. The Nominal 12V Lead Acid would have an actual fully charged voltage of a little over 13V and the charger would output (open circuit) close to 14V to achieve that charge level. The Charge Level indicator would always have a scale with a range extending above and...

Yes, I had one on my Renault Megan Scenic which with such a chopped-off rear end there was a massive blind spot. I do appreciate the reversing camera on current and a few of the most recent cars. I found most of the 360-degree modes on the Loaner ZS Facelift I have had a couple of times I didn't...

Reversing camera's do give a lot of parking security but I had a car one or two ago with a really useless rear camera but al round parking sensors and I could park that in tighter spots with confidence with my eyes closed better than any car I've had with rear parking assist camera. So Options...