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My Dad and I had tickets to see the Nottingham Forest match last Thursday evening. Insisted that we took my car to Nottingham this time rather than his diesel, given the price rises. I found someone online who rents out their drive and charger and it all went well. Used a lot less energy on...

Getting the Givenergy EVSE was one of my less good decisions. Never got to be compatible with Intelligent Octopus Go. Now it has got worse! Apparently the EVSE is entirely cloud controlled and so if Givenergy (currently in administration) goes offline owners won't be able to control our...

Givenergy customers have received an email today seemingly saying that they will be asked to pay for cloud server access and API usage in the near future. This is a real disappointment since they previously promised that this would be "free forever." There have been rumours for a while that...

Just had an email from Octopus They are dropping prices from 1st of April after the upcoming changes to charges (government taking some of these on instead of customers). This takes 3.5p off the unit, which is nice for the peak rate. ~30.5p down to ~27.5p But for the off peak rate that seems...

There are now two MG4s. Have we done a poll on preferences between the two? I think that people in this forum are talking more about the refreshed MG4 rather than the urban. I wonder if we are an unusual group in our interests, but still, I thought we could review the responses to the two...

Looking up new MG4 on Autotrader there are several MG4 Urbans in the MG4 list! For example this one... I don't think it is anything to do with Autotrader mixing things up - these cars aren't listed as MG4 Urbans...

Had a potential incident today thankfully averted by the automatic door lock feature. Not an attempted car-jacking, mind you. Parked up at the local shops and a young woman skipped up to the car and tugged on the back handle. Luckily for her it did not open because our dog does not like...

We've got 9.5kwh of battery storage with our Givenergy system. That has been fine until we've got our heat pump installed. On cold winter days the battery seems to run out before getting round to the next cheap period. I've obtained a quote from our installer as follows... Extra battery...

I guess it was inevitable... Octopus have just emailed to say they are reducing our solar export rates from 15p to 12p per kWh on the 1st of March. Makes sense really. As more solar is connected to the grid the value of generation during the middle of the day will drop. Already the wholesale...

Inspired by the recent thread from @aardvark5 https://www.mgevs.com/threads/did-you-buy-your-ev-to-save-the-planet.25025/ I thought I would re-run an earlier poll we had 18 months later, now that we have a lot of new members. People are encouraged to participate even if they participated in...

I always wave when a fellow MG4 drives past. Occasionally I get a smile and/or return wave. 👋 It is nice and reminds me of doing that with fellow mini drivers 24 years ago! 😊 But what is the new etiquette going to be with the MG4 and MG4 urban? 😲 Will Urban drivers be included in "MG4 wave...

Hi all, I mentioned in a post that we've had a heat pump installed and I got a DM from a curious member about how it performs in cold weather. Since I looked up the data to write them a response I thought I would share it with the group! The Vaillant Heat Pump app provides us with data. I...

I've realised that I've been building up trophy points with all my valuable contributions to the forum here. Very nice. Does anyone know how many I need before I can cash them in for an MGEV of my choice? Do I speak to @Stuart Wright about this or something?

Happy new year fellow MGEVer's! Hope that your electrons flow unimpeded and your batteries never run down to 0%.

What do you experts think of this video listing the arguments against EVs?

This came up on my Facebook feed and it got me thinking we should note that all brands seem to be having problems with quality and consistency lately. The ID4 is one of the biggest selling EVs in the world, and the biggest selling that isn't a Tesla or Chinese.

Hi everyone, I made another video and thought I would share with you lovely people. This one is about Net Zero. At least one brief mention of EVs but they aren't the focus of this one. I asked Pebbles to watch it before I posted it. Her comment was that it was different to my usual ones...

Car was hit while I was at work last night. Luckily, they left a note with a name and number. They don't want to use their insurance if it isn't too expensive but I'm guessing it will be a lot. Any thoughts on how much it will cost? Absolute minimum: new bumper (painted) and a new light...

Get the popcorn out everyone. I've made another You Tube video, this time about our energy bills! Preaching to the converted on here, but perhaps another real-world example if you want to share with family, friends or colleagues. I also made a shorter version for those who just want the...

Spotted in the Everything Electric car park this morning. Does this beaut belong to anyone on here? Someone has put a lot of effort in! Don't think I fully captured the white roof and front badge.