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    Intelligent battery heating: stops when selecting ECO driving mode

    Intelligent Battery Heating (IBH) is Slightly more intelligent than I thought. Even if the IBH setting in the Energy Consumption panel is set to Enabled, it won’t heat up your battery when the Drive mode is set to ECO. It will start working the moment your drive mode is anything other than...
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    LFP charging like a boss

    Stopped at a GRIDSERVE last night, arriving after 1 hour drive with 7% SoC, leaving 37 minutes later with 80% SoC. Started charging at 7:53pm and ambient temp of 18°C At 7:58pm it had reached 19% SoC, with the battery temperature between 27°C and 31°C and still charging at 82kW. By 8:12pm it...
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    Battery temperature on the centre infotainment screen, a godsend

    I have Car Scanner running on iOS (iPhone) and using CarPlay I can see dashboards with sensor readings as I go. This morning I planned to pop to the local grocery store to buy some food and rapid charge to 80%. It was 5°C outside but the battery pack was between 9.5°C and 11°C. I switched the...
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    Worth keeping a toolbox in the car to fix chargers on the go?

    Stopped at a Lidl today and decided to plug in to their charger. Tried a few times, didn’t work. Noticed the plug wasn’t properly secured Had a look at the plug and socket for any debris. Found culprit ??‍♂️
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    MG4 or MG car meet?

    I tried to find a thread about organising opportunities for car meet ups specific to the MG4 or electric MGs in general. Are there any? If not, shall we organise one?
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    How many chargers at your work place?

    I plugged in my car at the office today and once it had reached 100% I went to move it so as to free up a bay for someone else. I couldn't see all the charging bays but I assumed someone might have needed one. When I left the office tonight, as I was walking back to my car I started counting the...
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    Always a fan of Rory Sutherland

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    Polestar 2 review (previous gen) and TJA/LKA equivalent

    The below is from about 14’ into the full video, it talks about TJA and LKA - Worth watching the rest of the review too. Puts things into perspective. The whole video:
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    I’m in N Wales

    May I ask that you all say a little prayer for me? CCS2 isn’t a Welsh word. With all those consonants who would have thought uh?
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    Tesla supercharger debits me in multiples of kWh, what’s the rounding logic?

    Whenever I visit a Tesla supercharger, it seems to debit my account in multiples of the price per kWh at that time. How does it perform the rounding of the last few Wh delivered between me stopping the charge and the charger disconnecting? At speeds above 70kW I can understand it well takes less...
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    Disappointing GRIDSERVE, Weird GeniePoint and great but expensive MFG experience today

    210 miles mostly motorway trip today from London to the Peak District. Planned a mid way stop to refuel our bodies, recharge the battery and empty our bladders. On paper Gridserve Watford made perfect sense: at the M1 services, plenty of chargers, all 150kW + , what could go wrong? Arrived...
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    LFP: Battery heater engaged at 97% on granny charger in subzero temperatures

    Second time charging my SE SR (LFP battery) to above 97% today on a granny charger outside at -2C°. The battery heater engaged automatically and drawing around 1.5 to 1.7 kW every few seconds. Charging to 100% will take a lot longer than I hoped. This is the same behaviour as if I had started...
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    Benefit of heated battery and heated garage

    I slow charged my Mg4 SE SR to 100% today, including equalisation, while I was working from home. I’m lucky in that for a couple of weeks every month I have access to a heated underground parking space with free charging, albeit slow at 3.6kW. Loaded car with my luggage, ready for a trip from...
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    Launch control: is it just for x-power?

    Do any other models have launch control other than the x-power? Reason I ask is because I didn't know if mine had it or not. Watched a video showing the sequence for the x-power: left foot on brake, right foot on accelerator: press brake hard, floor the accelerator. Power builds up to about 60%...
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    Interesting video on battery technology, voltage, SoC, SoC estimation etc...

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    Yet another personal experience of long distance driving

    This is my experience driving to Paris and back this past week in my MG4 SE SR gen1 (gen1/phase1/MY22, call it whatever, it's the one without the rear wiper to be clear) Range Left on Tuesday morning, came back on Friday evening. I drove most of the time in the stock Normal mode (including the...
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