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Know what you mean. ICE technology has been obsoleted almost overnight as everyday transport. It'll become a "special occasion" kind of thing. Like the classic car market now is. Lots of lovely old cars but totally outdated and impractical, so use on Sunday only and watch the values increase :)

As the car acts as a greenhouse, I'm sure it can get hotter in a standing car than the outside temperature. In this case the recirc will not initially be helpful. Under these circumstances, I normally drive with the windows down for a mile or two until the worst of the heat has exited through...

Intermittent faults really are the worst. Might be worth investing in a cheapish OBD reader so that you can read the fault codes (if there are any) when the fault occurs. Good point re the battery. Try disconnecting it and measuring the voltage. A healthy one should be 13.5-14V with no load. I'd...

Sweet. If only that read V8 instead of V6 :)

I'm glad you did, Popsie, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it! It seems weird that the SUV brake lights trigger under practically all regeneration/deceleration scenarios, whereas the MG5 doesn't trigger under any! I am at a total loss to explain why that would be, other than an oversight on the...

Just a suspicion of mine but I sense that cruise control (whether adaptive or not) is responsible for generally more shoddy motorway behaviour. Once it's on you want to leave it on so there is a tendency to try to drive without using the throttle or the brake (because what the use of CC if you...

This just goes to show that you can't please all the people all of the time. In fact it seems increasingly difficult to please some of the people all of the time or even all of the people some of the time. I generally aim to never please anyone ever, which means that it's a real bonus when...

This whole battery technology is moving on at an incredible and admirable pace (without which these vehicles would be dead in the water). It has to work for everyone's sake!! I've never been known as an "early-adopter" and I'm happy to let others forge the way forward on my behalf :) . Can you...

I'm most definitely NOT an expert on this subject but I am aware that 80kW+ is a huge level of power (about half of what the battery can deliver under full load). Think 8-off power showers all running together! This charge rate (and higher ones, still) must create a lot of heat in the battery...

Interesting that the highway code defines coasting, lists some of the supposed disadvantages but does not then forbid it (unless the snippet is incomplete?). I can counter most of these quoted disadvantages...... * Normal engine braking is usually eliminated - of course that's the whole point...

Yes, I'm aware that modern (fuel injected cars) stop fuel flow altogether when decelerating. But under these conditions the engine is essentially braking the vehicle and hence impeding forward motion. It is not quite as simple as the article suggests - for one thing, it is incline dependent...

Yes, clearly we'd like to know if KERS3 retardation in the SUV is the same as it is in the MG5. I think only an accelerometer would answer that TBH. I sometimes find that regen effort seems to vary for no obvious reason. Sometimes it seems unbelievably strong, other times, not so. Maybe we...

I love this car. It's what I would call an "it does what it says on the tin" kind of car. It's cheap transport that ought to save the environment and save the planet in the process. If you want a fancy car with lots of knobs and whistles, expect to pay double. The MG5 is not top quality. I...

I am a firm advocate of coasting in ICE cars for maximising fuel economy. As far as I can see, the associated risks are no greater than other negligent driving activities (such as being in the wrong gear at a junction etc). BUT I haven't (yet) done it in the electric car (except for one...

No, that's a good definitive test, Popsie and much appreciated (by me, at least :) ). So we can now say with certainty that a 2021 ZS DOES have brake light activation under KERS3 whereas an equivalent 2021 MG5 DOES NOT. This seems a very strange state of affairs if you ask me. What were they...

That's a good demonstration of what can be done, Les. Well done. I still haven't done a rapid charge yet!! :)

Not me guv'nor as I'm usually within a 30mile radius of Salisbury. But I've seen several since I've had mine, all within a few miles of Salisbury, and all Westminster Silver as I recall. Good colour eh??Maybe you got yours from Thompson's of Frome as I did? I think there are more about that...

No it hasn't really been publicised a lot but it's obviously the way the government is managing to grab back some taxation from EV users, as fossil fuel tax revenues diminish. Even if the government found a way of taxing home chargers at 20% (rather than the current domestic electricity VAT rate...

Unbelievable! Well I'm not expecting it to be that good TBH. But I have now tried the air-con when the car is in Normal Mode (as opposed to Eco Mode which I normally use) and I would say that it is a bit better. It's definitely not ice-cold but if it can get the car down to a reasonable...

What's a bluetooth?? :) I've got a couple of black ones.