Recent content by Mg4me

I've the zs EV (short range) for 12 months now. I tend to leave it in an overnight 7kW charger when it gets very low, about thrice a fortnight. I've discovered that to keep the range like new (320km or so), Once a month I run the car to low and then snail-charge at home (1.5kW) right up to full...

It's a year later from that inquiry, during which so much has happened! 2024 cost for an MG 51kwh battery replacement is $15,000 all up, but should be a tenth by 2030, which will be only a sodium ion (Na+) battery. Sodium ion is the battery future, and has bad news, good news, and fantastic...

I know this is an old thread, but my MG ZS EV my22 clearly has the BMS issue. I've been noticing how long it takes to charge. It only reaches 11kwh on a 22kwh charger. On a 50kwh charger, I might see it peak at 35kwh. So for now, I cannot reasonably go on any longish trip. It takes 4 hours to...

Yes absolutely. The 'how on earth would they know' is pretty naive. If I were designing the interface platform I would definitely log every time a connection was made, and the device ID. Nevertheless, if such a connection is not allowed, then they should have locked the connection. As they have...

No. I bought this one ELM327 V1.5 OBDII OBD2 Bluetooth Car Diagnostic Scan Tool Auto OBD Scanner for Android Devices : Amazon.com.au: Automotive and it has a flaky connection, but when connected, 5 different apps tell me that it is not connected! Nope didn't work for my zs ev my2022, using a...

Sorry to hear that. I bought mine from: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004861174792.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.4.460f1802tPROQM and it worked OK so far. I ran a 1200w microwave + air-fryer + fridge simultaneously for about a half hour and all worked without issue. Though I...

Yeah absolutely. And the dash screen won't go off either. Especially unsafe for a woman in a remote car park. The drl and dash is illuminating the face of the driver. I mean, come on MG???? I don't mind automatic lights, HOWEVER, when I park & turn off, I expect full control of my situation &...

Could be the SC-chip flow. I get exactly the same story here in Melbourne Australia. Now, the MG4's won't be here until December 2023! By that time, the one's on order may have been transcended. It's not the manufacturers fault though. They would be selling them as fast they could if they...

Yep, ditto. Lights seem bright, white and strong; although I haven't taken it out into county night yet!

OK, I'm going to tell the story about why I shouldn't be here. Some years ago I was traveling out through an isolated area between outer Adelaide suburbs (no lights or houses nearby) and had to stop to check the address. I turned on the lights and flicked over some pages. Next thing I heard two...

I've had my ZS EV for a week and I'm in heaven. It's beautiful. I don't use the auto-handbrake at all for driving, because it affects my takeoff, and I don't like the feel of it. But as soon as I park it and turn it off, the brake engages, and there is no power loss overnight.

Yeah, and that is utterly fair enough! At least buy a coffee. Ah yes. Elon. Elon. Here's my take. Many are confused about ego. Ego is simply the need to draw attention to oneself. We all know that rare person who just makes everyone feel good - where the room cannot hold any more people because...

Oh yes, the Tesla App! Real value, because it's one of those 'Hey, we've got your credit card#, and now we're gonna make it real difficult for you to stop the monthly payments going through..' type of business models. In other words, very unethical. If you subscribe to the Non-tesla charging...