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There are quite a few other EV's with similar drivetrain layouts, permanent RWD with occasional 4WD when required. Tesla dual motor, Kia EV6, and I'm sure I'm missing plenty of the VAG branded stuff. Has there been any reports of similar behavior from these cars when in RWD only mode...

Personally I prefer RWD cars, I can't see myself going back to FWD, so I've not considered the Ora

Yep an angle grinder will not behave like a resistive load, it is more of an inductive load. Look up 'power factor' if you want to nerd out ;) You could probably connect up a 3000W kettle and it would work without issue.

I've had similar to the video example where it can thinks you're going to rear end someone even at low speeds. My strategy is to leave a good sized gap between myself and the car in front, and be ready for anything!

I don't know if there is a big difference in efficiency between xpower and normal models, but if it's close then it's nice to have something that's reasonably efficient with stuck behind slow traffic, but still has the performance when there is a oppotunity to use it, even if it uses more juice.

Good info, thanks. On the trophy model I've found it goes back to 'normal' drive mode when starting it up, no matter what drive mode it was left in, I imagine it may be the same on the xpower. I think I'm going to have to give the Xpower a test drive and also check that the insurace isn't silly...

I didn't know that it could be put into RWD only mode, do you have any more info about this about this? I am pretty tempted to get the Xpower, and I'd like RWD only for day to day use, and would be happy to swap to 4WD when needed. Also the autobahn is a nice place go if you ever need to...

Wait, have I missed something, is the complaint that the MG4X weighs more so it can't corner while carrying speed?

I'm not big a fan of blacked out badges, but I quite like the purple here, good complimentry colour for orange. Nice job! :)

I hate to be pedantic, but it looks like you have the bulbs being on for 1 hour here, when it's actually on for a minute. ;) 7.12W for a minute is 0.1186666667Wh, or 0.0001186666667 kWh - please correct me if I'm wrong!

I agree, but it really is little in this example... I thought I'd have a go at working out the extra range, I've tried to keep the numbers simple for this example: Let's assume the MG4 does 6 KM per 1 KWh, which is equivelent to 6 meters per 1 Wh. Let's also assume the pair of LED's use less...

Each bulb uses 5W, I would say it would meters rather than miles to the range if you were to swap them for LED's ;)

Thanks, I don't actually use wireless charging on my phone as it creates a lot of extra heat, and it's slower than wired charging. I'll try turning it off on mine and see if this does the trick.

I've not had any issues with mine as the HV battery should charge the 12v battery when it gets low, so I don't see any reason to add any more weight to the car.

Hi, I went for a Viofo A119 V3, I would recommend. It's known to be pretty good bang for the buck in terms of image quality, and it sometimes goes to less than £100 on Amazon when a money off voucher appears.

Nice, the link works for me, thanks very much for sharing this info. I don't have any equipment that can deal with the higher speed FD bus currently, but I'd be interested in a method of simply recording the video feed to SD card, so if I do pick up some FD capable kit and get anywhere I'll...

I believe this feature uses the windscreen mounted camera. I would check that this is aimed correctly on your car, if it's blocked on not pointing at the road then that could be a reason why the cars are not appearing on the screen.

25W would still charge a phone with a small battery pretty quickly, but it would be considered pretty slow for charging a laptop. It's pretty rare for a USB port at 5v to output any more than 3A. However USB C using something called 'PD' can allow for higher power, EG 20v at 5A, so it could do...

Another option would be to use a front dash cam on the rear, and just run power

That's really neat, and nice not having to run wires around the edge of the windscreen, nice job