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That's almost exactly what I have. 3 year term (with early termination penalty) unless I leave my job, so I would imagine the tyres will need replacing at least once. I keep seeing second-hand bargains, and wonder about equity. But this lease means that deprecation, servicing costs, anything...

Have you set the car up to use your home WiFi? This could be a help or a hindrance, depending on which of WiFi or cellular is the better signal in your garage.

I've developed some real brand-loyalty to Anker. Their cables have always worked for me where others don't. Chargers are solidly built and reliable. Power banks too. Great products.

Is there a (permanent) way to stop the 360 camera coming on automatically at junctions? It often comes on exactly when I want to check the satnav.

Yeah, this isn't acceptable. On a granny charger, or a home charger with no schedule, it should just start charging as soon as you plug in, no other interaction. Anything more is unacceptable hassle. The only times I've needed to touch "start charging" is times when I stopped the charge...

I get a chime sometimes - and don't know why. Haven't spotted anything on the screen.

If you look at what's inside, though, there's nothing much to go wrong. Here's a stripdown of a Hyundai one - will be very similar. They do have a thermal fuse, but the only circumstance in which that would go is if you plugged in a ludicrously faulty plug under a high load.

Has anyone documented a folder structure that works?

Yes it is old school I think it's been like that since the 60s at least -- it's my wife's childhood home. You're right, there must be a main fuse somewhere - I just couldn't spot it. They are fused - I know this because we had them in my student accommodation in the 90s. We would all stick a...

Pretty much. The yoof go out and about with nothing but their phone. Security people will explain why each of the payment methods is more secure than its predecessor. Google Pay / Apple Pay are more secure than contactless cards because you have to unlock your phone to pay over a certain limit...

Google Pay - wave your phone at a reader as if it's a contactless debit card.

I can't find a description of the folder structure MG expects. But if you find one, explain it to ChatGPT, and ask for a Windows PowerShell script to rename the files, it'll produce one, and it'll probably work.

I probably ought to ask on a non-brand-specific EV forum, or just an electrician's forum, but hey, I've got an account here :) My sister-in-law is considering a salary-sacrifice lease, which would be great for her I think. But she said "I'd have to get a hybrid, because I can't charge here and...

To be fair, all my Hyundai i10s played music of USB sticks, but the folder/filename/etc. stuff was a mess. Never tried it on my Peugeot, but wouldn't be surprised if it was also a bit off. Someone could probably write a script to rename thousands of MP3s non-interactively.

We evangelise about EVs, don't we - and I will continue to. But as long as we find these charging stories worth telling, things aren't quite there, are they? How long until there won't be a story to tell? "I drove to Orkney, there were chargers at all the places I stopped for a break"? Less...

Hypothetically... the sensor output might not map linearly to the actual temperature. It might read 20 for 25, 19 for 24, 17 for 23, making a graph that's not a straight line. The mapping might be different for every sensor. Maybe there MG4s on the road where 20=20, 20=25, 20=19 and everything...

The PDF manual says quite explicitly that you should power down before DC charging. But, screw that. It works without powering down, so I'm not doing that.

If I'm in that sort of traffic, I'm using TJA.

10kW shower for 5 minutes = 0.83kWh. And 10kW is more powerful than normal. Probably not worth getting up at 5am to save 25p. Yeah, we run the dishwasher on a smart plug timer. Thats less than 1.5kWh per use, but it's most nights, so I guess it adds up. After 10 weeks it'll have paid for the...

When I received my Trophy, I thought the missing rear wiper was odd, but I haven't missed it at all since. It's designed to clear itself. 1 pedal driving, I've not experienced. If you turn regen braking to high, you get something "close to" one pedal driving (according to some reviewers); you...