Content by GaryMG4 in September, 2025

Assuming you have cheap home charging, for the return journey try to arrive home with as little range left as you are comfortable with, better to fill up at home @7p rather than 70p kWh. It's worth having a splash and dash option close to home in mind just in case.

Don't know what's in the HS but the MG4 mirror selection switch in the central position will fold the mirrors if the joystick is pushed down.

It's quite hard to compare when you've added in so many variables, without the car I wouldn't have paid for as much energy, without the Zappi I wouldn't have access to OIG and smart charge during the day. I suppose the best way I can compare is that my average rate over the last 6 months is...

Probably difficult to calculate for personal use, a business yes there's a formula but personal use has many factors. A friend, an early adopter of solar, is currently getting £2.5-3k income from his system but given his age and state of health I'm not sure which will expire first him or the 25...

Born in 1955 here, I guess it just depends on background. In my last years at school we had a primitive computer, an Olivetti Programmer 101 (I think). Its own symbolic language programmed onto magnetic cards with the output printed on a till tally roll. Went on to work in assembler and Cobol...

Not even close on this side of he country

After an abysmal 1st quarter this year the next two have totalled just over £700 from FiT so I'm a little happier now. In those 6 months I put 1400 kWh through the Zappi of which 490 came from the solar, less than I thought

My 2022MY Trophy (64kW NMC) will balance the individual cells when it reaches the specified %age. This is evident from the gradually reducing/fluctuating current draw one the desired %age has been reached, down as low as 80w. The range and social do not change during this process and eventually...

I wonder if there is a bit of a mix up of terminology here. An equalisation or balance charge is where the BMS will charge/discharge individual cells to balance the voltages across the pack. This is to ensure when discharging a.n odd cell doesn't go into deep discharge and potentially fail. With...

If I'm doing a full calibration charge, <10-100% I turn off IOG and straddle the 6 hr 7p slot, although I'm not sure where the information came from that it needed to be uninterrupted. Normally I'll let the car stop the charge at 80%, this will do a cell voltage balance which is evident by the...