Recent content by JimD

Well, I can finally confirm the update did the trick on my 22 plate MG5. We had a trip to Seahouses today, and I did a slight detour to Adderstone services and did a short test charge, which worked perfectly. 51p per kWh, as opposed to 79p at Alnwick services a bit further south of there.

I meant that my post was a reply to a comment about charging time and power only. For that purpose, the size & energy density is irrelevant.

I didn't know about the 480kW chargers already out in the wild. For the purposes of this discussion, the capacity of the battery is what matters, not it's physical size and weight.

Not sure where you've plucked those figures from, but you're mixing up your kw with your kwh. My MG5 battery is 60kwh and will go about 200 miles. Say a 1000km (about 620m) would need to be 200 kwh, you would need 200kwh of energy to charge it from zero to full. To charge in 8 minutes you'd...

When criticising China it's worth remembering that the reason they're in the position they are in the first place is that the world's corporations sent all their manufacturing there to take advantage of cheap labour when the success of unions to force fair wages in more developed countries...

Yeah, it was Vic Young in South Shields.

I don't doubt it, but it's the way things are and I just wanted it done.

They told me they would just charge for labour so cost would depend how long it took them (estimate was 'up to an hour'). In the end it took half an hour.

Sorry, I had a good look but couldn't see any numbers without taking the whole engine bay cover off which I couldn't be @rsed to do. Anyway it all got done yesterday successfully, and no surprise I got charged for the technician's time which came to about 70 quid, so not bad to have the peace...

Booked my pre-facelift 22 MG5 in for next month - 3 year service & MOT. I asked about the update and even said that if it couldn't be done under warranty I'd pay for it (after all, it's not the dealer's fault and life's too short to spend time arguing the toss). After the receptionist checked...

CDs have objectively better sound quality than MP3s, so it's reasonable to prefer them. However, you can rip the native .wav format files off CDs and play them directly with most (probably any) pc or android media player; the only problem is they take up more space, but with memory sizes...

Have you looked on the back? My MG5 one has a chart telling you what all the light combinations mean.

I'm just coming up to 3 years of EV ownership and I've just used the granny charger. I had intended to get a proper charger, but soon realised I didn't need one.

A relevant link - Drivers alerted of scam text messages about parking fines | RAC Drive EDIT: I see you already have it.

Personally I wouldn't trust a parking penalty demand that came by phone. Once you entered your registration, a scammer could theoretically find out where the car was registered and tailor the location of the 'offence' to suit. Check out the number that the text came from on 'who called me' and...