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7 hours for 190 km on a hot day with aircon running the whole time is going to use a fair chunk of juice.

Interesting observations. Like us, it sounds like you are driving your first EV. We are two days from our first full year with our MG4, except we don't have annual servicing here, it's every two years/40,000 km.

MG Australia's sales have not met their parent's expectations and so they need to clear stock. It's a bold move, will annoy a lot of recent customers while a whole bunch get to pick up a bargain. But it will make for an interesting data point for marketers on what the price point needs to be...

They must be well hidden, have used V4 chargers several times and never noticed a screen. Where is it?

? :LOL: I'm OK leaving it standard. See no reason to use more energy than necessary.

If it came with flashing lights and 1970s dance music system it could have been:

In fact having a screen on a DC charger is a big negative here - they just end up getting vandalised. Way better to just make them plug 'n' charge. Have the charger network recognise the car when its plugged in and as long as you have an account with that network, that's all that's required...

No Tesla Supercharger here has a screen. I never knew they had one.

To use a supercharger here you need to have the Tesla app, set up an account and have entered a valid card payment method. To initiate a charge at a V3 or V4 station you need to use their app. You park, open the app, select find charger, it locates where you are, you then select which charge...

This is what the Tesla map looks like for us non-Tesla drivers in the SE, with the extra sites at Coffs Harbour (one opening later this year) I added for context. It's pretty decent highway coverage.

You can't charge a non-Tesla at a Tesla Superchager without using their app. AC chargers are different. It's up to the site owner to determine how charging is managed with those. For a lengthy shopping centre visit (my version of hell on Earth) that's probably what I'd do too. If you are in...

Yet that's exactly how Tesla do it. Free OTA updates.

Got confirmation today that Coffs Harbour will be getting two new 15 station all access Tesla Supercharger sites.

Yesterday did a 460km round trip, mostly 110 km/h dual carriageway. Can see how at the start the range estimate was high, as it was assuming I was continuing with local driving. As we progressed can see how the range estimate was falling - and took quite a while to stabilise at the new...

Wind direction and elevation changes can make a big difference to consumption each way.

And battery status once charging had stopped for the day: So that's 40.4 kWh into the drive battery. Almost all solar PV, with the exception of a bit of free grid energy 12-2 PM: Iotawatt reports 42.2 kWh of AC energy supplied to the EVSE. That's 95.7% charge efficiency.

Someone on the MG4 FB page posted this deal on a new XPower:

It's sure been sunny up this way of late. This is our driest period of the year, great for solar. Our last seven days of PV output:

Battery status this morning. No plans to head anywhere today. Just waiting for the sun to get a bit higher in the sky so it can start charging up.

That's the Camden Grey, not silver.