Content by decrep in December, 2025

If it's an emergency stop, the person behind could be getting very close anyway, if their car is going to hit you, the power back will make the impact all the harder. If you keep your foot on the brake after you stop, does it still roll back, when you take your foot off?

ABRP? perhaps.

Ashes ashes ashes

I haven't seen an official explanation, but I assume it's for emergency services to take care with the battery.

summer time here sorry just skiting doors,windows open. cooled down outside 24C right now very pleasant evening Xmas forecast 38C spend at beach

But he has a 16kWh battery, even if he's out when the sun shines, the battery will still top up. But I agree with Everest, to work well it needs more panels.

My brief thought, is that you are still in the ICE mindset, we fill up the tank when it gets low. With an EV slow charge rate, it often makes sense to top up when the power is available. I think there is a slight advantage to the battery, to keep it around mid to 3/4 charge. Only do full charge...

Front wheel drives only under steer if you have your foot down, try taking your foot off instead

Just had a 10km drive at a constant 70km/hr, ended up at 11.7kW/100km. temp was 21C road was dead flat with 10kt head wind. Normal mode, level 3 regen.

good luck with that then, let us know how you go. I don't think there's many of us here that can stick to 85 on a 400km journey. I think I'm doing well if I can keep it under 110

Terry, that's a nonsense chase, it's quality over quantity surely?

Wow, you are good! I could get 4 in our Mazda2 Be interesting if you can shed some light on effects of regen level, driving modes and cruise control. I have a feeling you are correct and speed is the major factor.

That's an ambitious target, I think you'll have to drive well under the speed limit, unless going downhill with a tail wind.

Charged to 100% yesterday and the GOM says 376km. Lowest I've seen it on a full charge. Think it's due for a calibration charge, haven't done that for at least 6 months.

hold out your foot!

We have a big advantage here in aus, plenty of sunshine. We can charge our car purely on sunshine, even in the Winter. I'll shortly be able to automatically only charge when there's excess solar, once the EVSE people get the software working. We have 9.6kW panels and a 5kW inverter, so I can...

Semantics issue???? what did he mean by unflustered? my interpretation would be that's it's not a problem, not that you don't feel it. Same with the other one, what did he mean by unstable, probably not what you and I mean by it.

I can only speak for our MG4 OPD is OPD, it's separately selected in the infotainment screen under "driving" If the car doesn't come to a complete stop when you take your foot off, it's not OPD. And yes brake lights come on once deceleration hits a preset level, similar I guess to when an ICE...

A guy here made a windsurfer a bit like that several years ago, he couldn't sail it.

probably both

I doubt I'll be here to worry, 105 doesn't sound feasible.

January 26 isn't far away. that's the first I've heard of "blue stickers" Where do we get them from??? I know I'll go to the dept of transport website, what's the bets, they may have something about it???? TBot says, For electric vehicles, the label is a retroreflective blue equilateral...

I have my moments and enjoy them but rarely keep it up for long. Being first at the lights, is often a temptation I can't resist. Especially where there's a merging lane just after the lights. There's a good excuse for rapid acceleration then, to get out of the way.

I'm surprised Reintje, our 51 can get as low as 13 in the burbs. On our drive to Bridgetown, going up the scarp, it was about 17. But we haven't seen the predicted range the wizard gets. I think the best I've seen is 410. Very much doubt we ever got that. Edit, I was driving fairly slow...

Can the amount of castor make a difference, to side wind affect? My intuition is that it could have a big impact.

Vader, we are in total agreement! I just love how smoooth you can get the drive in OPD, especially pulling up at the lights. There's no way I can get it as smooth using the brake pedal.

trouble with the guess O meter it's based on past driving, it's got no idea about future driving. Present driving, is just averaged with past, so can take a while to have an effect.

Double bummer then, good luck!

O dear, and you're in France. I'm not sure who gets the most sympathy here. You or the person organising the menu.

I guess I can test that, by turning location off in the phone

Yes I've recently had this, but I had ABRP going as well, I put it down to a conflict between the two. It could also be where the phone is, on it's little shelf, maybe sat reception is very dodgy.

Where on earth did that come from???? Talk about not living in the real World.

I haven't tried it but somebody here definitely said it works

Makes no diff, same amount of regen in all 3 cases. You need little or no regen for derusting brakes, it's been said many times before. no regen in reverse, at 100% SoC or in Neutral. If you're brave you can also use accelerator and brake pedals together, (I haven't tried this yet.). Also hard...

This is only true, if you have little control over your right foot! The only reason you'd be using more regen is if you lift your foot off more than needed. If you slow to the necessary speed, and no more, the above argument is meaningless. OK, so I guess some people are just used to taking...

Albany is cooler. When Mandurah hotter. only 400 km Better wind Sunday Not going though

I like wind but not cold in boardshorts yesterday getting hotter sunday then colder again.

Aus big county not all hot

Can we assume that's you?????

OK, good we're on the same page. But I can't think of an easy way to find out. I was hoping someone on here would have a clue about it. Other wise it's just a coin toss

Did I say it was better? But it would be good to know, wouldn't it.

Are you sure there's a difference in acceleration when you flatten it? I've read in other places, that there isn't. Sport mode changes a few things, but not flat out acceleration.

Yes, but how well does it work? If the OBD value is better wouldn't you want to use that?

officialdom evading work. Surely those vids are clear enough evidence of a real problem!

So, still a puzzle as to what caused it to keep dropping out? Something somewhere was sensing an anomaly. CHATGPT, says it was a 3phase imbalance, common with older EVSEs and cheaper ones not configured for single phase. Maybe it's just making that up? The box has always worked fine in the...

I'm fairly sure it was the EVSE doing the cutting out, the car charges fine on other EVSEs

With any luck it's in your boot, that's where mine is. (but it's not an MG cable, just a generic type 2 charge cable)

I guess it's possible OBD and the car display, are getting their info from different places. It would be interesting to know which is the most accurate. That's the one you need to take notice of.

I had an interesting case last week, my MG4 wouldn't work on a 3phase destination wall box. It started but dropped out soon after. So was that because the wall box had no idea how to process a "please just treat this car as single phase", signal, thought it had a faulty unbalanced load and cutout?

have you got the OBD app on your phone? Does that say the same battery level as the dashboard or ABRP?

When a trip first starts, the initial acceleration takes a lot of energy, it's a heavy car! So the first mls/kWh is high. Normal running uses much less energy, so the mls/kWh will slowly drop.

Maybe you wrong.

I think you've misunderstood. Regen levels, don't really affect the regen/friction braking ratio. Regen levels only adjust, the accelerator/brake pedal action. at level 1 lifting off the go pedal, gives a regen level equivalent to ICE engine braking, then transfers regen request to the brake...

sounds like the sensor in the charger socket, is activating with no plug in.

Trust my wife to see this correlation.

Handy to know.

Aren't charging voltages different? If the charger is set up for lead acid, won't that cause a problem?

23°C 12:12 perfect.

They certainly found a lot of droppings, and rats are notorious for chewing stuff. There's a high percentage they are right, but for the remaining percentage, easier options should be tried first.

I'm not sure how far up that blue is?

sounds fantastic Sounds fantastic, but I think I've missed out. The MG4 would need a V2G conversion somehow, and I'd need to find some more money.

I was hoping that would come to WA, but we are behind SA. Also there's the matter of the car doing V2G. We are signed up to the VPP, but that doesn't involve the car only the house battery.

Here's the car trying to charge at our Bridgetown Air B&B. Turns out to be 3 phase unit. Started charging straight away at 3.5kW. I was expecting more, but that's all our MG4 can get out of a 3phase unit. It charged for about 5mins then stopped. I retried several times, but it would start...

Yes that does sound easy, but in my case (I just had a look to make sure,) there's already 2 batteries with the BMS mounted directly on top. The batteries are designed to be stack-able, to get to the port for a 3rd battery would mean remounting the BMS slightly above where it is leaving a gap...

Don't ask me why, instinctively I don't like it, just subjective feeling. They have a very nice professional connection between battery and inverter, I'd have to break into that some how. It would be immediately obvious. The installer warned me, touching anything would void their warranty.

If I did something like that it would void the warranty on my system. I also don't like the inverter and power supply connected together, I'd be using a change over switch.

something is draining it, you have nothing plugged in to USB ports, OBD dongle and every thing else is turned off? Needs a sparky with a meter to see where the current is going.

hmm, evidence is starting to point to the user. Do you have something plugged in? The OBD dongle draws power even when car is off.

Who are Australians? People born here? People with passports? Big problem here

Yep, I get that, 3 phase in Delta is 440v between phases. 240V phase to Neutral. So you only get about 1sixth the power in single phase.

Reset button didn't help, back on the granny charger. 100% predicted 0400 tomorrow morning. 3 chargers side by side in Nannup, but they all need different apps that I don't have. So gave them a miss.