Recent content by Bam Bam

Indeed. Thanks for getting involved! Didn't want to @ you but you found it anyway.

Yes I did, sorry everyone. US aren't so keen on the Chinese cars are they!

There seems to be a strange fascination with BYD, perhaps because it has some western investors, unlike SAIC, Chery, etc. They are a very prominent brand that are advertising at major sports events and expanding into many countries (unlike MG, which is quite US [sic - UK]/Aus/Thailand focused)...

Looks a bit like a Cupra-MG mashup at the front. Presumably this would be front wheel drive, though the image has the charging port at the back and usually this matches the main drive axle. For people with limited parking space (trying to fit two cars on a drive, or parking on an urban...

It is these kinds of discussions that are going to really put Rolfe and me off tinkering with things that are way beyond our expertise! It may or may not be possible to do this with Givenergy equipment but I am not the person who is going to prove this.

Thanks for clarifying. So something like this? LiFePO4 Charger (Fogstar Energy) - 48V 35ADefault Title My worry would be that a lot of time, money and effort could be spent setting all this up and the Givenergy system will just say 'no, I don't know what that connection is so I will just shut...

A different perspective is that it isn't a good idea to have 'loopholes.' If you can make money from solar tax free but not from other sources then this will give people an incentive to invest in solar and not in other things. Hmmmm, doesn't sound so bad actually. Could be a 'good distortion.'...

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...

I should be clear I haven't tried doing anything like this. Here is the Givenergy cable. https://coolenergyshop.com/products/givenergy-battery-cable-for-gen-1-to-gen-2-or-gen-3?srsltid=AfmBOorpqWEt0FRl8F0ziYsVuW-hC_ar5VHA2B9hKInyfP6vkgB_qYDz I guess you could get one of these and connect it up...

I think the mini and metro that I used to drive got very low ratings even then, let alone now. I'm genuinely lucky to be alive given how stupidly I used to drive as a reckless teenager.

I think Givenergy use proprietary cables. So you'd have to bodge their cable and convince the system that it had another official Givenergy battery. My guess would be that Givenergy will only work with their own batteries and if you tried to plug anything else in it just wouldn't do anything...

Perfect example of the value of this forum/site! Thanks for sharing. 😊

Tim and Kat have been musing on this question after suffering a power cut. We have pretty much exactly the same set up as them, except they already bought an extra battery (so they have 14kWh to our 9.5). They might get a cheap second hand battery off a fellow you tuber.

Ours from AliExpress is still working.

I guess the thinking is that the resident should pay something towards it because they get the benefit, and spending scarce council resources on EV owners isn't a priority That use of public funds is the issue, even if increasing EV ownership in general is an important priority to improve air...