If you use ABRP. I would also recommend you pay for at least one months subscription, and buy a OBD2 dongle (data from which is only accessible in ABRP via subscription).
Why?, the car over estimates the percentage charge in most cases.
Not really worth pre-heating the battery when charging on AC, as you will/may use more electricity to pre-heat than you gain in charging speed from charging a cold battery. Benefits are mostly when DC charging.
We have had our MG ZS TLR from new since June, with 27,779 miles now on the clock. New tyres all round at 25,000. Only issues have been
Other issue is heat transmission into other cabin from the Sun. We have had UV film applied to the driver and passenger windows (£100) to help cut now in the...
British Gas Electric Driver V17,
Off-peak - 7.9p/kWh (currently discounted to 3.9p, being revised 5.9p.
Peak - 28.19p/kWh,
Standing Charge - 41.45p
62% of our consumption is off-peak in October '25
(Very happy)
The number of false positives we have had in other than motorway conditions , re: the car emergency braking, means that is the only condition in which we use ACC.
I've had the same issues with USB port on our ZS TLR, and AA or Apple Car Play have been seamless since purchasing this dongle : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMXZB9KL?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 I feel its £25 well spent (y)
And I guess this may just cap off our 2 1/2 year journey with BGas and their Hive EV charger (Alfen S-Line), which I have to say has been 95% reliable since October'23.
1st October the charger went off-line (reliant on internal SIMs card, no house wifi connection) I contacted Hive help and was...
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