Content by Gomev in February, 2026

I think you mean 0.1% rather than 10% of cost of Hinckley C. :)

Let's hope you are right, he is suing the BBC and they are going to take it to court.

Totally agree, it doesn't look ahead so it can't anticipate anything like we can and smooth the speed out. Although there does appear to be an element of road users that don't anticipate either. ETA - I forgot to mention that despite that I use it all the time, on motorways and in town heavy...

Just to clarify I think @securespark means how can he pull up the display of m/kWh, or more simply how can he display on the instrumentation panel what the mi/kWh is/was. :)

That had already been done, only set for order and payment notifications. I'm wondering if it might be an Alexa notification, I have altered some settings there (in the same Amazon account settings).

Are you sure it was 73, ;) there are roundabouts and slower speed limited stretches between Cambridge and Sheffield :D Or are you only counting the A1 stretch and not the ends to get onto and off the A1 ? It's a long slow bit from the A1 to Sheff.

That is a phenomenal average speed of 66mph, I've never achieved anything like that, in fact that's nearer my top speed than my average 😂 .

The Advance is part of the newer model range and is much larger than the earlier one and with bigger everything inside. The models in the older range were SE Connect, Premium, N Line, N Line S, and top-spec Ultimate with boot size 332 litres The newer range are Advance, N Line, N Line S, and...

A lot of the things that affect NCAP are the things we all don't want anyway. I'd take NCAP 4 if it meant the LKA was permanently off. :)

...and as for Amazon sending notifications I cannot find how to stop. Thank you for shopping with us we thought you might like some breakfast cereal/cosmetics..........

His main source of income now seems to be suing people and organisations.

It is and it's corrupting my search for a future replacement. Looking at possibly a years time so looking at current models and they all disappoint on the efficiency front bar the Teslas that I don't want (because of the minimalist interior) or those without the similar range.

My Hyundai Kona is officially 302 miles. In summer with AC on fairly easily achievable, in winter with heating on realistically 225-250. I recently did a 163 mile trip starting at -2 and reaching max temp +2 degrees and that was the low figure of 225 at 3.6 m/kWh, but generally closer to 250...

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This would mean you are buying a car for the occasional trip rather than buying it for the everyday use. Who would buy a season ticket to the football/rugby/cinema or whatever just in case they wanted to go one day. Buy to suit for the day to day and fit the exception into that. @securespark...

Just get one or the other, the pick and mix is a compromise for both.

Don't forget you are never able, well very rarely, to maintain speeds. There will inevitably be holdups, roadworks, traffic etc etc. From experience on a longer journey regardless of destination or speed I can more or less count on an average of about 50mph. Check it out on your route planner of...

Plug in hybrids, sometimes thought to be the worst of all worlds. Why lug around a piston engine along with it's gearbox, exhaust etc when you're driving on battery ? Why lug around a heavy battery when you're thrashing those pistons up and down ? Hybrid vehicles are the most likely to catch...

The trouble with having time is that there is so much choice you end up going round in circles comparing this and that. Then just to make matters worse a new bloody model comes out and you think oooh I wonder how much that will be 6 months or 1 year old ? Once you have bought something if you...

Speed is deffo a big factor, I've grown to like 65mph (ish). The difference in arrival time I have found to be completely negligible on a long journey and as for a short journey you might as well do 50. I'm sure many will have seen this but it's always a good watch.

Use Normal mode for WLTP with everything else off such as heating, seats etc. Eco makes it look better, Sport makes it look worse.

How does all this fit in with the recently posted on here video of range testing (and charging) in Norway. In real life as opposed to theoretical lab conditions the BMS surely helps sort all these problems out. P.S. Not disputing @T1 Terry great knowledge at all, just curious as to how how it...

Sounds like a bargain if you want new and it suits your needs.

One thing I forgot to add about the Kona, and all Hyundai/Kia I believe is the GOM. It is so incredibly accurate that I still find it almost unbelievable. On my recent trip to Llandudno and back it predicted the range precisely. I don't know what wizardry it uses but Harry Potter would be...

I'll do my bestest to try. :) May I reply to those points. 1. Yes they are based on a hybrid platform, however the floorpan is flat in the EV. Interior space is compromised in the Kona as it is shorter, but the e-Niro has decent interior space. 2. Security. There were 2 types of issues the...

I missed the medal ceremony(ies), but the upside down union flag is so common these days it makes you wonder if some don't even know that there is an upside down.

The unfortunate fact though is that so many people believe it or just simply pass it on without any basic sense or fact checking and eventually so many people see it, so it then becomes "true". Do you remember FUD about EVs....

I'm your man for info on the Kona. :)

This sounds, no pun intended, to be social media BS. 1. Ukraine hasn't won a gold medal, or any other medal. 2. The Russian Anthem is banned from all Olympics since 2022 due to the invasion of Ukraine and ongoing sanctions, with Russian athletes competing under a neutral designation, and so that...

Indeed it is, it looks okay in pictures but in the metal it was literally butt ugly in the grey. That rear window is so narrow....

I followed an IM5 up the A64 the other week. My gawd that butt end is so ugly in the metal.

I'm heading off to Walesland tomorrow, Llandudno to be precise, and am in a quandry. As a Christmas present to my missus I bought us tickets to go see Shen Yun at the Venue Cymru but here is the problem, the performance starts at 6pm. Now that makes it too early to have dinner before and...

Yep, he had a Tesla for years and has now got a Porsche Taycan, and May has had several EVs.

Jack Reacher style.

This year's in Spain totality is about an hour before sunset so the sun comes back fully at sunset. Will be good though.

Definitely a one off for us, next total in UK not until 2090. We get the partial this year too and quite good on August 12th. From Google Starting around 6:15 pm BST, with maximum obscuration (roughly 90-96%) occurring around 7:10–7:15 pm BST, just before sunset. The event ends around 8:00 pm...

So no watered down coffee for you, you prefer milked down coffee, i.e. coffee flavoured milkshakes served hot. :D

There is one this year which crosses northern Spain, we've booked for the 2027 one. 2026 2027

Amazingly prices are normal for that time of year, I just booked a package holiday. I hope the prices are honoured. Once in a lifetime event, bucket list stuff..... :D

I have just booked a holiday for the beginning of August 2027. Never have I booked so far in advance. :D I shall be in Southern Spain and I will leave everyone here to work out why. :cool:☀️

You're right it is. Basically to make any of these you put some of the base ingredient (almond, oats etc.) in a blender, add water and a few drops of oil (olive, veg etc) and blitz. Then drain the gloop through a filter to allow the white stuff to run out.

Point of order and a touch of pedantism. Since 2017 under EU law (we were in the EU and still retained) it is not allowed to call it milk, 'cos it ain't milk. The word should have disappeared from all advertising and packaging. I also saw oat 'juice' being made on TV and thought why does anybody...

Silly question, but let's eliminate the obvious, that's not the original film cover that you get on screens when new that should be removed is it ?

Whilst it is nice to have a car that is a looker, unfortunately the looks are for other peoples benefit. As the owner my time is spent inside. :D Which curiously brings me to steam trains. I have spent my money to travel on heritage steam trains before but I seriously wonder why. The whole...

You need £5 on the account to start a charge, however when I tried to top up the minimum was £10.

OMG is this competition for the most prodigious posts still happening ???

It's OK to say you like the look of a car, regardless of power train, try not to feel guilty about it. :D

A very similar journey, early ZS, then MG5 and then a move away from MG, for me to a second hand Hyundai Kona (again not exactly for the looks!). I did like the look of the MG4 but my wife (short a***) couldn't have lived with those wide door sills for getting in and out !

Wrong ? Scheduling perhaps, planning no. :unsure:

I just like gadgets and saw my Gen 1 ZS EV as a new toy. 🚙 (also our only car, went all in)

You are correct, short journeys with the heating on will kill the range. The heater is constantly trying to get the car up to temperature as opposed to a longer journey where once it's up to temp it only needs to maintain it. The GOM will only predict based on the recent history, and it is only...

My solution is slightly different, if you're cold in the car, turn the heater on - solves 2 problems, being cold and condensation. Thank heavens cars these days have moved on from the days when you couldn't do that. I also remember waking up at home with ice on the inside of the windows, again...

Do you use an app for the Rolec ? I use ev.energy for mine and when I've had issues I contact them and they have looked into it.

Same here in Leeds. Anything that can be recycled in one bin(green), garden waste (brown) in other and what's left in another (black). Glass used to be separate but is now combined with the rest of the recycling, recycling facilities can now cope.

re OBD dongle software, most use CarScanner. Free version is good, only a small price to upgrade to Pro.

So many variables it's almost guesswork and probably easier to work out what works best for yourself. Different cars have different set ups, amount of regen and levels of regen, when do the friction brakes take over, some individuals have heavy feet others don't, etc. etc. I'm sure given...

Have a look at this thread https://www.mgevs.com/threads/regeneration-with-acc-mg5-mg-zs-difference.7483/#post-118992

or anything else 😂

I did, V2s

Hard to know if we are in other parts of the UK since we don't know where you are, apart from in the UK :)

All very true but not exactly something the man in the street spent his idle hours thinking about. I have to agree there was no mystery about the charging infrastructure, there simply wasn't one 17 years ago. Hydrogen vehicles have been predicted for just as long, is the question for those...

If you can use the Zapmap app, no preloading, then the Podpoints will be fine, no more difficult than using the Teslas at Banbury, and the same price(ish). Another thing to note re the Banbury Tesla chargers, which I have used several times, they are the type 2 and you have to park appropriately...

Are you sure it's not just you that has thought of the gender stuff ? Are the Americans smart enough to have thought of their solar panels as feminine ?😂

Once again whilst I agree people just wanted better cars but how did we know that EVs were better then? I think that makes the EV part very relevant as the only real change to the car from others available, same as now, is that the drive train is different. So at that time all cars of whatever...

I think I can guess from the clickybaity title which way that's going to go.

I'm currently in the slow cooker part of the year and have quite taken to using those flavouring sachets from Schwartz/Colemans/own brand. These produce a great flavoursome meal with virtually no prep and don't need to be labelled as the slow cooker varieties, use any of them aprt of course from...

I'm not too sure, but how how long is that piece of string you are holding ?

Whilst I agree with what you say, in 2008 (Tesla Roadster), 2009 (Nissan Leaf), 2012 (Tesla Model S), did we see any firm evidence that EVs were what people wanted then ?

As an addendum to my report above Podpoint can now be paid for by your Zapmap account, no membership required, just use the app. This will be a far more practicable method of payment as far as I can tell. Please see the following info/article...

Perhaps you ought to read this from my recent trip to Heythrop Park. https://www.mgevs.com/threads/podpoint-public-charging-nonsense.24771/