Content by GaryMG4 in February, 2026

I guess the current government have just realised the previous one had already given the spare cash to their mates for faulty PPE, ferry companies with no ships etc. Now Labour have rewarded their backers by using parliamentary rules to get round the requirement to advertise jobs and just...

I think the whole taxation thing is indicative of just how broke the country is, equivalent to searching down the back of the sofa for loose change.

I suspect a lot of 2013 cars would score zero on that basis now. Come to think of it for 40 of the 50+ years I've been driving the cars would have had zero stars!

I think the argument about arbitrage is that the tax free status was to encourage green electricity micro generation, which gives the counter argument that Octopus only supply green electricity. IIRC they were only considering battery only installations where the net income was over £1000, so...

It was 5* when it came out, they removed/replaced side impact airbags which possibly caused it to be re-evaluated and it didn't meet the current standards for crash testing or ADAS.

No, she was a little disappointed but enjoyed the nutcracker anyway and I just wanted to go on Concord.

I stopped recording mine a while ago, mostly using the Zappi at home but in July 23 I added a little over 80 miles in just under 10 minutes also at a Tesla supercharger hitting 142 kW for a little while.

Our oil boiler draws 100-150w when running, I suspect it may be an earthing issue.

It was advertised as swan lake but turned out to be nutcracker. My then partner was into ballet, I was starting to enjoy classical music so we were both happy with the performance.

My only experience of the USSR was a brief trip to Moscow to see the Bolshoi ballet in the 1980s. There was a company, Canterbury Travel I think , that did a series of Flights of Fantasy trips on a chartered Concord. We departed Heathrow in the morning, a quick flight to Moscow, off to the...

Just out of curiosity I thought I'd put some ££s on yesterday's numbers. We paid Octopus £1.32 for the electricity they supplied, EDF paid me £1.90 for the electric generated and I banked almost 20 miles in the car so not too shabby for a cool February day, shame I used 3l of petrol in the Jazz...

It's doing everything we need of it, they gave us a 3 month old Niro 4+ to use while they sorted the BMS loom problem, I liked it but SWMBO thought it had too many gadgets, just as well as she has the poverty spec e-Niro.

Not especially sunny here today but I managed to self consume 6 of the 8.3 kWh generated with 4.6 going into the car at the cost of 400Wh courtesy of the Zappi ECO+. I don't generally bother trying to charge from solar this time of year, todays peak output was 1.7kW so too close to the 1.4...

The original email did say something like 'we will inform of the details fully before it is implemented at the end of January'

Certainly would be the case if you were a business not sure there's anything in personal tax like that.

Interesting point, as with most taxation it probably hasn't been thought through, I would imagine a credit is still benefit in kind. I had similar thoughts regarding me FiT payments, in a good year it could exceed the '£1000' limit although with 2 EVs the generation amount won't be above 120% of...

There was a report that HMRC was considering making income from arbitrage taxable.

interestingly it also said that new IOG customers would be charged the a price that included the January rise but for existing IOG customers they would hold off the rise for as long as possible.

I think the recent drop in Lithium prices killed the 'cheaper' advantage causing some companies to either quit or put on hold their development. source Matt Farrell - Undecided.

We replaced an old Suzuki with a 71 plate Niro last year for about £14k. It is quite large, has good efficiency and surprisingly quick for its weight. It's noisier than my MG, doesn't ride or drive as well, the interior seems pretty solid, plenty of physical buttons, seemingly added at random...

How much generation capacity do you have? We have only generated 25 kWh from a 4kW array so far. Edit: well added 11 more to the month today.

yeah, sorry it was a lazy AI answer. I didn't take the time to think it was improbable. I will say I see more MG4s than ID3s around here and I was put off the ID3 with the reviews slating the clumsy software, haptic controls and not up to VW standard interior.

Yes, also same 7 mile drive there from cold.

A bit of a resurrection, but form my experiment today I selected intelligent and set the destination as an EV charger. On connection it quickly ramped up to 132kW and remained there from 35 to 55% where as last week without selecting EV charger as a destination and in only slightly cooler...

So true, but by spending money to be there it goes some way to ensure they will be there. Better still spend the money being a driver for the day. A few years back I did a 'driver experience' where I fired for one trip then drove a 9F for the return trip, quite an experience.

curiously 9,000 uk registered ID3 vs 49,000 MG4s

The Myenergy app seems to correlate with my generation meter but then it uses the Harvi that came with the Zappi. As I'm on deemed export I don't take a lot of notice of amount exported unless I'm trying to get as much free solar into my car.

I think I've only used Instavolt once or twice and only used contactless, tend to be expensive.

It worked ok for me, I averaged 20k a year for around 10 years in mine (4 of 5) without any issues.

Was for me, until the MG4 came out EVs were either more £££s than I was willing to pay for a car or fugly/low spec. I started with a mk 2.5 in 2003 and ended up with an ND from the 2015 launch that I kept until 2023, a total of 5 over that period. I do miss it on a sunny day but since retiring...

Pretty much the same here, after 5 MX5s over the previous 20 years I wanted something different, fancied trying an EV and here we are, 2 EVs as well. As for the planet, I'm sure it will be fine once the next mass extinction happens (human race).

Our 11 y/o 4 kW array faces 240 degrees (WSW ish) and around 30 degrees angle so do much better with afternoon sun so I guess it just depends how the day develops. Last winter Dec-Jan generated 51+90, this winter it was 87+87, hoping for a decent spring again.

Down about 5% on last January, but the same as December 2025 - equally bad.

I guess it's all about your location. For me 2 local nature reserves have Podpoints, both Tescos and recent holiday locations use them so apart from the occasional mobile reception issues they work for me.