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Ah, sorry, obviously those tariffs (from November 1st) have been pulled and pumped-up a bit; seems 'intelligent' is the cheapest option now. The slightly less dim aspects to the recent price rises are that it's likely that wind/solar e prices will get decoupled from gas (although the latter has...

Octopussy also do a 5-hr 'Go', at a slightly higher (currently (sorry) 8.25p/kWh vs 7.5 p/kWh for 4 hours); with 'Go' you choose your timeslot; Gofaster (5 hrs) allows a slot from 01:30 to 06:30, enabling you to battery pre-heat and ac precondition in the last hour at the 8.25p rate. Maybe worth...

EIther one of the reports is in error, or you'll be seeing some 'warmth' appear somewhere - 4 kW power dissipating in a rectifier and/or the cable/connections is a lot... Is the car 'battery heating' while this is happening? (I had the heating scheduler default to 'on' the first few times i used...

Driver16: as others have mentioned, achieved range is a function of many factors, mostly covered earlier in this thread (and other range thread(s)). While understanding the source of your annoyance, try to bear in mind: (i) Most current (sorry) battery chemistries perform less well as ambient...

FiFi; the 12V battery is probably not 'drained' but just at a low charge state, i.e. low voltage. Depending on the circuit resistance, it's possible there will be sufficient charge/voltage to operate some of them. Rcall the days when an ice would light-up the ignition circuis etc, but fail to...

one suspects quite a few forumers (?) will be interested in the outcome of the investigation - could I ask that you pls keep us informed? Similar 12V issues are widespread across most ev's. One of the 'backstop' solutions is to keep a backup 12V Li battery to hand (likely a thread on the...

Airbags/warnings; for info only (as it's a bit off-topic): Airbags are pyromechanical devices, i.e. they are the baggy-bit which is 'explosively' inflated with gas (not 'air', but usually Nitrogen - N2), the latter being supplied by combustible propellant in a 'gas generator'. The propellant is...

id.3 base has steels with aero covers

agree; old farts it is. There is some crossover, though: In the '80s i recall occasionally driving a heavily modified (literally in both senses) xjs v12 on 300 mile round trips with some 'grunt' work inbetween: around 2 miles per litre - 22 MJ per mile - average energy consumption, i.e...

oh dear, 'efficiency'(!) : Perhaps it might be useful if ev-ers refrained from being bullied into describing their ev's as 'inefficient' at higher speeds - they are no less inefficient than ice-powered vehicles, aerodynamically. The energy required to shove a 2 square metre body with a drag...

! moggie trunnions - ahhh...

strewth; alexiamarnie with a moggie thou and SueH with a... Marina. MG could make some good pr from this...

as remarkable wrote(-ish) - holy sh!t ! Presumably a 'moggie thou' with the 948 engine? Well, at least your days are done with having to change the big-end shells on the A1 verge (or the gearbox at Scotch corner...). Only a bit of public charger useability to get your head around, which is...

never a petrolhead, but: 70's/80's - various nutty things, Frogeye Sprite co'y cars (heaps - most of them) Pug 205 XUD9 Civic vti's (Honda) LandCrusher (Toyota) Espace (Renault) in which the ECU would randomly cease functioning for random time periods Jazz (Honda) Hybrid Honda e, Id.3 SESR...

The white powder is probably the talc-like substance coated onto the airbag; it separates the tightly-packed bag material, preventing sticking--togeter, and works as a lubricant during inflation, so preventing bag-burn and subsequent leaks. You shouldn't be seeing it. Sorry, you're not expected...

AF447 too. bad systems design can easily overcome great software...(!)

FiFi; we all sympathise/agree with the sentiment and overall meaning of what you've written there, but the reality of 'code' is that most often the 'bugs' are very simple 'low-level' instructions that occur due to a number of reasons - coder error at the fundamental stage is only one of them...

The issue here is twofold: (i) the scale of model testing needed to provide an adequately high 'confidence interval' (level of confidence of correct operation) prior to release, (ii) ensuring the 'model' adequately represents reality. Key to understanding complex systems (like the new cars) is...

if the regen efficiency is decent (maybe around 75-80%?) then, provided you're 'braking' i smostly regen and little disc friction, most of the energy used is in overcoming aerodynamic drag. Yeah the tyres drag a bit, esp if underpressured, but it's in the aero's. Now the MG4 (collect ours...

'airbags' aren't filled with air - they are filled very rapidly by the gaseous products of the combustion (deflagration) of a substance such as sodium azide (there are other substances; pyromechanics is a big and very specialist subject); if the airbag has initiated it will be quite obvious...