Recent content by GaryMG4

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.

We had some of those at the local Sainsbury's until a couple of years ago. Only problem with them was the local Ford garage used to leave a Mach-E there a lot of the time as was a Polestar that belonged to a Sainsbury's employee! Plus if I did find one available it was very tempting to stop for...

Podpoint works fine so long as you have a mobile signal. You need to 'top up' the account with payment before you start charging, the app says if you top up during charging it won't register but last year I was topping up at a Forest Holidays site expecting it to stop once the money run out but...

Visited in 1980 after John Carter (Holiday TV presenter) suggested visiting whilst it was an unspoilt destination, never did make it back there again. Not sure what Singapore is like now, when I visited in 1980 it was somewhere you felt completely safe wandering around at night but somehow...

' When I was a child a London black cab driver that lived over the road from me couldn't start his cab. His brother brought a spare battery round in his mk1 Cortina (yes it was that long ago) to jump start it. Sadly I think he connected it in series as there was a very loud bang and bits of...