Content by Everest in January, 2026

So, how would that work with the UK's minimum wage of approx. £12 per hour, China around £3 per hour and Indonesia less than £1.50 per hour?

Yep - as I mused here... https://www.mgevs.com/threads/mg4-lfp-battery-state-of-health.17293/post-340395

Was XPOWER in UK only produced for MY2023? :unsure:

https://ev-database.org/side-by-side?i=1279,3147&h=057a15ac38117bbf6d69c450ff67f665eac99ca14de01334b5ad788ffa02e44c not sure how long this "compare" is held for, but you can always do your own "add to compare" via ev-database

@Everest makes a mental note not to check "What's new" on mgevs.com so often...

Hmmm... did you read the consultation document? And discussions in this thread :unsure: (covered in sections 4.28 to 4.31)

Oh no... looks like the Daihatsu's just been spooked!

That's not good. Try driving on the road instead 🤷‍♀️

Hmmm... looks like a pregnant Soul to me. So, I guess that means someone must have found it attractive to start with ;)

Evidentially not, because if it was a car it would be Escort, not escort ;)

😭 All the best cars I've driven have had their rear wheels powered.

If you're stuffed, you don't need to stop for fudge doughnuts 🤷‍♀️

Those Amazon resellers Were very quick ;)

You can only stop in Cupar in a Cupra, eh @LenEV2016!

One of my old vehicles had an ABS disable button, which was great for use in snow. Much better, IMHO to lock the front wheels and let them dig into snow than detect a bit of slippage and release the brakes. But, hey ho, I haven't seen that on a car in the last 20+ years :( And I doubt snow...

they have a different face... old = new =

Nice... add that that to the list of questions about the MG4 facelift's features!

And @siteguru should do a commentary for that, complete with an inset power-point presentation, Chris Whitty style, to explain the deceleration forces and the rules when it lights up and doesn't :) Then post that as a sticky for the next 10 times the same question is raised ;)

@MGClive has ;) Warning light added to show when the brake lights are on. Edited to add: Oops! too slow here

"here" not being Bali, I assume ;) ⛱️

That will be a design issue and will depend on length of cable run and fixing method reference method (e.g. whether in free air, buried in plaster or under insulation etc.) as defined in Appendix 4 of BS7671. Other factors will need to be considered such as proximity to other parallel load...

Some vehicle's BMS system will restrict charging when temps are low and SOC are high. Ours did that this week when it was -4C - as the SOC increased above 70% the charge rate dropped - though never stopped.

Oh yes.. the Rachel Reeve's car club scheme 🤑

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: 3 times and counting :)

(y) for the young ones... my back wouldn't cope with that approach though 🤣

IMHO, we are less regulated over here than many other countries (e.g. USA and France)... certainly in terms of electrical work.

Yes, but... this is the sort of English up with which I will not put. (with apologies to Churchill)

I would expect the output of that to be similar to the MG's V2L - i.e. floating earth. So I suspect you'll have the same issue. No (to your question in bold). IMHO the "issue" or rather the "safety check" that is correctly being performed by the vehicle's charger is to make sure an earth...

With mine, it started charging at 7kW and then decreased as the SOC increased. Makes sense but wasn't expecting it.

And don't forget that prepositions should not be used to end a sentence with ;)

Tongue saves on wet-wipe costs.

In the UK, you would effectively need to create a "TT" earthing arrangement - I suspect same down-under but you would need to check local regs. It will require N-E bonding at the source, a suitable earthing rod and then RCD protection of the supplied circuit. Suggest you use a sparky to set...

That's what's good/useful about forums

Best of both worlds... just buy a 3 year old EV ex-taxi and the depreciation will be vastly reduced ;)

Not sure what to tick as question 4 seems to be missing... 🤷‍♀️ "Question 4 - Do UK members really want to know how hot is it in Australia right now"?

I didn't realise (until last night) that EV's / some EV's reduce their charge rate when just charging via a home 7kW charger (i.e. not just on rapid DC chargers) when the temp is low and the SOC high :eek: Is this common to all EV's or just certain makes? Wondering if those out there that have...

(y) you should be using a strainer, rather than a colander, to hold in those little unimportant appointments 👩‍🍳

Well, as @Rolfe's away and @siteguru is a bit tardy defrosting his bus, thought I better do the "bold underline italics" thing so people don't think @salty is referring to his colander in the kitchen... ... and, for completeness:- there's inappropriate use of commas kitchen is not a proper...

(y) that works too..

It is indeed 3680W... in my defence, UK Power Networks round it to 3.6kW in their application forms. Not that we ever "see" the nominal 230V. It's either around 250V when we're exporting or 220V (if we're lucky) when charging.

Shame it wasn't a 2015 calendar as you could reuse one of those in 2026 (i.e. non leap year with 1st Jan starting on Thursday) :)

Totally agree with all that... you were one of the "others have done that" when I mentioned using V2L to charge home storage batteries. Well, nearly everything you said... ... the pedant in me will clarify that the cut-off between G98 notification and G99 approval is 3.6kW (16A at nominal...

I think the Ioniq 5 is only V2L, same as MG4 but with 3.6kW output. Ioniq 7 is rumoured to support V2H, but it will be a while until they're MOT failures of those.

Maybe he lives at the top of a big hill :unsure:;)

I thought that bi-directional V2H capable chargers like theirs currently cost around £5K and require an EV such as the ID.4 that provides bi-directional DC charging 🤷‍♀️ Regular V2L systems (e.g. as found in Kia / Hyundai and MG + some Renault) can't be grid tied. You can, of course, use the...

1) Losses. Not just the inverter conversion losses, but the V2L operation will consume (from various research I did on exactly your proposal) around 250W quiescent usage for the vehicle's electronics. That's no big deal when you're powering your kettle or oven. But when your house is...

Blimey - two MG4's with their bonnets up in one day! Must be this cold damp weather messing with their distributor caps ;)