Search results

After nearly four months my XPower has travelled 3000km, small potatoes to some, but a milestone to me. I'm getting comfortable now. Some lifetime stats: Average speed: 40 km/h (WHAT? 🙄) Juice use: 16.3kWh/100km (3.81 miles/kWh) Unexpected reversing: 4 (OPD always on, seems to happen after...

And even some not so young... 🙄 I've been really smug with my EV and solar, only paying for a charge once, plus a few bucks when clouds briefly blocked the sun. Today I was getting ready to start charging - just waiting for enough sun, when I discovered my MG4 was already charging, and had...

Went for my first "you'll have to charge if you want to to get home" drive on Monday. No reason, just seeing how the car went, & to give rapid charging a go. I'd decided on a trip to the coast, & planned using A Better Route Planner. ABRP reckoned I'd need one brief charge on my way home. 🤔 I...

I went for a drive today. More on that separately - all good. 😁 The attached shows my consumption pie chart. Looks pretty clear - 60kWh driving, 3kWh AC, 63kWh consumed. 370km. It also says Regen benefit 23kWh, which I thought was impressive. Some very big downhills, that turned into uphills...

I enjoy the sound the motors make, and frequently claim it sounds like a turbine, but that's not quite right. A big industrial fan? Office block aircon unit? 🤷 What about this? I think it's closest so far. 🤔 Maybe not. Judge for yourself. 😉...