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Assuming you have cheap home charging, for the return journey try to arrive home with as little range left as you are comfortable with, better to fill up at home @7p rather than 70p kWh. It's worth having a splash and dash option close to home in mind just in case.

Don't know what's in the HS but the MG4 mirror selection switch in the central position will fold the mirrors if the joystick is pushed down.

It's quite hard to compare when you've added in so many variables, without the car I wouldn't have paid for as much energy, without the Zappi I wouldn't have access to OIG and smart charge during the day. I suppose the best way I can compare is that my average rate over the last 6 months is...

Probably difficult to calculate for personal use, a business yes there's a formula but personal use has many factors. A friend, an early adopter of solar, is currently getting £2.5-3k income from his system but given his age and state of health I'm not sure which will expire first him or the 25...

Born in 1955 here, I guess it just depends on background. In my last years at school we had a primitive computer, an Olivetti Programmer 101 (I think). Its own symbolic language programmed onto magnetic cards with the output printed on a till tally roll. Went on to work in assembler and Cobol...

Not even close on this side of he country

After an abysmal 1st quarter this year the next two have totalled just over £700 from FiT so I'm a little happier now. In those 6 months I put 1400 kWh through the Zappi of which 490 came from the solar, less than I thought

My 2022MY Trophy (64kW NMC) will balance the individual cells when it reaches the specified %age. This is evident from the gradually reducing/fluctuating current draw one the desired %age has been reached, down as low as 80w. The range and social do not change during this process and eventually...

I wonder if there is a bit of a mix up of terminology here. An equalisation or balance charge is where the BMS will charge/discharge individual cells to balance the voltages across the pack. This is to ensure when discharging a.n odd cell doesn't go into deep discharge and potentially fail. With...

If I'm doing a full calibration charge, <10-100% I turn off IOG and straddle the 6 hr 7p slot, although I'm not sure where the information came from that it needed to be uninterrupted. Normally I'll let the car stop the charge at 80%, this will do a cell voltage balance which is evident by the...

Same here PE34

I resisted the idea of a 7kW wallbox for the first 2 years of EV ownership and coped with just the 3 pin. In the end the convenience of being able to add 50%+ overnight and doing the odd <10-100% balance charge in a sensible timescale sold me on the idea. Octopus installed the Zappi back in...

The Lipo batteries I use for model flying are NMC chemistry I believe, they get a real hammering with discharge rate of 40C plus LFP batteries are not suitable for this as they typically peak at around 3C (where C is the battery capacity , so a 2aH battery at 40C can supply a peak current of 80...

I think the SE has a lower power motor as LFP batteries cannot supply the peak current that an NMC battery can, likewise it cannot accept the higher charging rate.

Many years ago I accidentally washed my Nokia(?) smartphone after drying the only thing that didn't work was the micro SD card, a replacement sorted that out.

We had something similar with our Kia Niro EV recently, although we don't have any hills in Norfolk. The car would randomly go into turtle mode and limit the power. This, it turns out, was due to a known fault with the BMS loom. A poor connection meant the BMS was (incorrectly) registering a low...

This year both my cars renewal quotes came in lower than the comparison site, and lower than last year. The only thing I have changed is I removed the auto renew option on both policies last year.

Not that I'm aware of

Yes it happens occasionally, usually for a few days then it behaves itself for a few weeks. Similar things happen with the traffic sign recognition, sometimes it is off when I start but kicks in after a few miles other times it will stay off for a day or so.

@Rolfe had a similar stealership issues, she had an independent check and chose move dealer.