Recent content by GaryMG4

Interesting, what EVSE are you able to do this with?

Thanks for that, I thought I had seen it demonstrated, although not an MG4.

The adaptor still works ok with the vac, although that is only 800W. I'll have to get the other half to sit in the e-Niro to see if any messages come up, it all happens very quickly.

I've not tried it for a while but it did run a vacuum cleaner ok, I'll give it another try.

Its coming up to the anniversary of getting the Zappi installed having resisted it for almost 2 years so I thought I'd have a look at the data. According to Octoaid I have paid Octopus £633 for 4433 kWh (less around £12 credit for free electricity) plus £173 standing charge. Of that 33% was at...

Anyone got this working? I've tried the MG one and the Kia one, to see if I can charge the e-Niro from the MG4. Even if I set the Kia to 6A it starts then stops quickly, at 10A it doesn't start at all and neither does the MG one.

Interesting, I'll try that. These days I tend to turn off smart charging and use the Zappi timer instead. The odd thing is that with the Zappi being controlled by the solar excess it doesn't seem to happen.

The issue I'm finding with IOG is that the MG4 doesn't like too many stop-starts in a charging session. Too many and the car aborts the charge with a 'check charger' message, our e-Niro doesn't have this problem but our nephew has the same issues with his Ohme/IOG/Volvo PHEV.

Not sure why you would need one. Once you have 'jumped' the 12v and put the car in 'ready mode' it will charge the 12v from the traction battery I believe.

Yesterday I managed to only export 1.4 of the 13.7 generated with 11 of the remainder going in the car so a great result in my quest to self consume as much as I can.

Only 102 from our 4 kW array and only 14 in the car but £24 from FiT, tomorrow looks promising though.

I suspect it is easier to add battery than engineer an efficient drive train and aerodynamics tend to converge designs in one direction. The original Ioniq had good efficiency and even our e-Niro can be quite good given its weight and bulk. The problem is they listen to the 'I won't buy an EV...

I'm sure the M3 is a great tool, the software integration with the supercharger network would make it ideal to travel all over the UK for work. I'm retired, my longest day trip is around 170 miles so well within my range summer or winter. When you charge at home ay anything from 0p (solar) to 7p...

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.