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Inductive charging (also known as wireless charging or cordless charging) is a type of wireless power transfer. It uses electromagnetic induction to provide electricity to portable devices. Inductive charging is also used in vehicles, power tools, electric toothbrushes, and medical devices. The portable equipment can be placed near a charging station or inductive pad without needing to be precisely aligned or make electrical contact with a dock or plug.
Inductive charging is named so because it transfers energy through inductive coupling. First, alternating current passes through an induction coil in the charging station or pad. The moving electric charge creates a magnetic field, which fluctuates in strength because the electric current's amplitude is fluctuating. This changing magnetic field creates an alternating electric current in the portable device's induction coil, which in turn passes through a rectifier to convert it to direct current. Finally, the direct current charges a battery or provides operating power.Greater distances between sender and receiver coils can be achieved when the inductive charging system uses resonant inductive coupling, where a capacitor is added to each induction coil to create two LC circuits with a specific resonance frequency. The frequency of the alternating current is matched with the resonance frequency, and the frequency is chosen depending on the distance desired for peak efficiency. Recent improvements to this resonant system include using a movable transmission coil (i.e., mounted on an elevating platform or arm) and the use of other materials for the receiver coil such as silver-plated copper or sometimes aluminum to minimize weight and decrease resistance due to the skin effect.
Hi I have a mg zs Ev exclusive 21plate. I’m just wondering if anyone maybe able to help as not had much luck with dealer or with product Ev. My question is does anyone else have an issue when charging there car at home on a 7kwh after its finished its normal full charge my car starts to trickle...
Hi everyone.
I’m hoping for a little bit of advice from you and anyone that may have experienced this issue.
Background.
I brought the car in August 2024 (no finance) new with no owners.
The car has been fine and no major issues.
Energy provider Octopus (IO)
Zappi home charger
The issue...
Hi all, we are driving from London to Lincoln and need to charge but it's not working.
Have tried to charge at two completly seperate changing locations with different charging companies.
Tried two separate bays at each location.
Tried different authentication cards.
Tried leaving the car locked...
Hi. New to this forum and new to EV cars.
I woke on Monday morning to find out that my lovely MG ZS EV had failed to charge.
Being somewhat of a hot head I contacted Ohme about a defunct charger. They were actually quite helpful and informed me it was the car. Anyway tried the local...
Hi All
Just had first service on MG4. Charging seems to be worse. Doesn’t seem to matter where I charge it stops at 97% and charges of 214 to last charge 258. Has anyone had same issues after a service??
Is it possible software upgrade has caused issues?
Any help would be gladly received.
Was away from home last week had a few issues when charging, and now I'm not sure if it's the car or the chargers at fault
1) BP Pulse AC charger, failed to charge and caused system fault which required me to pull the 12V battery to reset - Although sounded like the locking pin was...
Hello to you all. According to the brochure at the time we purchased as well as the most recent version, the reported max charging speed of the car is 94kW and between 0 and 80% the average is 82kW however we've never seen speeds of this despite using 150kW and 300kW chargers both in the UK and...
I have just got back from a scheduled software update, the MG4 SE LR had stopped charging on 3 - 5KW charge sessions at home, charging for 1 minute exactly before shutting off, this was replicated at several standard charging stations in the local area. It did however charge at Instavolt and BP...
Had my MG4 10 days now. First charge went fine, plugged it in at work and charged no problem. Tried to charge overnight on my newly installed Ohme Pro and it would not work no matter what I tried. I have been into work and tried to charge it and it won’t work there either. I got a red battery...
Hi All, a weird one I have encountered this week. My MG4 charges at the standard 7kW on my domestic charger and until recently was charging at the standard 7kW at the chargers at work. For some reason the car is only charging at 3kW now at work but still 7kW at home. I am the only EV this is...
Contactless payments only work if the total amount of contactless transactions made is less than £300. As soon as you go over this , the card needs to be inserted and pinn'd to reset the limit. Fine when in a shop etc but at a charger that only has a contactless reader, the card cannot be used...
Hi guys
Just a quick question
Has anybody had any recent charging issues with the MG4 even though the charging point is fully working?
Geniepoint is a very ‘efficient’ charging as you might know and i have tried to charge my mg4. As the charging didnt work on a number of occasions i...
I was really pleased in early July when I set up Amazon Music (using our standard Prime account). We used it all summer without any problems, apart from when in deepest Somerset there was no mobile signal for a few minutes.
Now (and others have reported this on FB) the original ‘free trial’...
Hi everyone, I have had a charging issue with my mg4 se where I’ve put my it on charge at my local dragon charging outlet in the village ( 7kw) and left it overnight to charge . Looked at the app on my phone this morning and it said 100% so walked down to collect and get on my way to work . When...
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I bought a ZS a couple of weeks back and it arrived literally two days before we went on holiday.
I had a Rolec Qubev Smart home charger installed while I was away by an approved electrician.
Everything is installed and the app is connected to the unit, but when I try and charge, it...
We have a new MG4 Trophy and perhaps unwisely went for the EO Mini Pro 3 charger as it compatible with Hive and we have loads of gadgets on Hive.
Having no end of charging issues.
The charger keeps going into fault after charging.
The car won’t accept a charge unless we tell it to on the MG4...
Hi All,
I have a MG4 LR (Blue) as a interim company car, having had several EVs including a couple of Leafs, Twizy and a Tesla Model S.
My home charger is a Pod Point that was installed in 2016 and is the 7kW model. It has performed flawlessly on every car EXCEPT the MG4. It may be finger...
My Mg zs Ev failed to charge last night, set for off peak time.
I am never sure if I am setting everything correctly.
Is there a podcast or similar that explains the correct proceedure for numpties like me?
I have a 2022 ZS Trophy LR with approx 3500 miles on clock, and a 3.5kw Pod Point home charger (used to have Ionic PHEZ). Recently, when charging it will randomly stop. Sometimes it can be after 30 mins, or several hours, or it will complete a successful charge with no problems at all. I have...
Hi guys
Tried to charge my mg4 at my usual 50kw geniepoint but was not charging . Tried a few more times but no result.
Tried another charging point (tesco) but no result same thing
Anyone experienced the same? If yes any ideas how to fix this
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