Recent content by GaryMG4

I remember doing that driving my father's old Austin, mind you if you stamped too hard you risked pushing the switch through the floor.

I'm at 47%, at lunchtime I plugged in and asked for 40% to be added by 8am, a schedule has been created to run after midnight but it did a half hour slot 15:30 now just waiting. Oddly enough my attempt to charge over Friday night failed with Octopus supposed to be adding 60%, the car sat...

I remember the Cairo museum being very cluttered and quite hard to appreciate things (1980/90s) and the tomb being quite plain in comparison to some of those visited in the Valley of the Kings.

Didn't go to plan this weekend. Both cars were fairly low, 4 hours free plus I thought I'd see how the greener nights worked out. Friday night had car plugged in but IOG decided not to charge until midnight, but got dishwasher and washing done. Car charge failed, ended up doing 10mm battery...

Not much of an incentive admittedly, 800 points = £1 credit I think.

Looks like they have introduced greener nights, if you you charge mainly on 'greener nights' you get Octopoints.

A friend had a similar problem with their hybrid Volvo, it refused to pre heat last winter because fuel had been in too long.

I think the problem is that 90% correct is still worse than none at all. All of the driver aids would be a really good idea except that if they are not perfect then add to the workload rather than improving it. I'm sure I'd be amazed by Tesla FSD when it works but just one fail would mean I'd...

The MG4 system is useless, way too laggy, the eNiro is just about usable although like @TimothyN I prefer to anticipate.

I'd have thought V2G would be a better mandated idea. Come home a plug in, let the grid use the energy in your battery to help with early evening peak loads, then replace the energy (and recharge) overnight when the wind turbines are still turning rather than turn them off to balance the grid...

It is pretty boxy and I agree the Kia 'look' is a bit marmite. It seemed smaller than our 71 plate eNiro, so did the 25 plate Niro that we had as courtesy car while they sorted ours out. The EV2 has a range around 270 for LR so I guess that's too low.

Kia EV3, 81.4 kWh?

its amazing the stuff we keep but will never use. I still have the tape drive and backup tapes for a computer I retired in 2004, SCUSI film scanner and a parallel print cable.

The whole (EV) driving experience is a lot more relaxing, less tiredness from noise, no pressing on to get the journey over because you know you'll need to stop anyway, the stop allows you to relax.

I found them at the back of an old case that housed DVD-RWs with old backups on.