MGFour
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HiI’m interested in this. Have another thread running in which I’m considering getting a MG4 but am (unduly) fixated on the pre-heating of the cabin. As I see it, one quite big advantage over my ICE car.
I’ve been told I may get an OHME charger with the lease deal and I’m currently with OVO for my electricity so will probably use their smart EV tariff rather than swap suppliers.
Are you saying you can smart charge the MG4 using the OHME but also tell the charger you need it to supply power to the car when the car demands it purely for pre-heating of the cabin thus getting around the bug of not preheating whilst plugged in and not receiving charge? Or is it just a clever scheduling thing for the same departure time each day? I work shifts……
Thanks.
I personally have a schedule set to automatically add 60miles overnight each night ready for 7am then if I want to precondition the car I tick this option too, it then supplies power for a set time before 7am i.e. 30mins, then I can request to preheat/cool the car and as its receiving power from the charger it will operate.
You could have a different schedule for each day if each day is different shift, (say mon, Thursday friday give 100miles and to ready 6am and Tues+ Sat give 50miles for 10am) but its probably easier setting one schedule and then if want more mileage its simply move a slider to desired amount and the same principle if time needed to be ready for is different, the ohme then works out the cheapest way to do this as you tell the app when setting up what your electric tariff is.
It doesn't only supply once the car demands it to preheat it would supply it anyway so if you didn't preheat it would still supply power for the period you have set before departure.
Hope this makes sense