Recent content by Roger001

Well, the UK government has decided that EV owners should start paying towards the upkeep of the road network by imposing a cost per mile tax. This does make sense as ICE drivers have always paid such taxes as they are just added to the fuel they purchase, but their solution is that the charge...

The UK now has a new socket standard - "BS 1363-2 EV" for sockets that are approved for continuous 10A inductive loads as found with an EV charger. Due to the current draw, you can not use extension leads to extend a granny cable/charger. For my needs, I ended up purchasing the 20m granny...

This is a YouTube video that covers the action that Octopus is currently taking to deal with some customers pushing the T&Cs of the Octopus Intelligent Go tariff.

So far the key items have been a wireless CarPlay device and a 12V socket USB charger.

Your communications with Octopus/Myenergi are due to issues between your Zappi and the Octopus servers. The first thing they should have told you was to check the Zappi firmware level. Myenergi if they ever get back to you, will likely point you in the direction of this page...

The affiliate discount on my car was over £4,000. So not something that a dealer is going to be able to cover on their own. In total the discounts for the Trophy extended range are often around £9,000 that involves MG providing a lot of support for dealers.

For my purchase at least, the copies of the proof were passed back to MG as it is they who provide the dealer with the extra price rebate.

Get an Insurance quote from Hastings Direct. They use a telemetry device to track your driving, which is something of a pain, without any NCB (my NCB is on another car) I was able to get insurance well below other quotes. One thing, switch it to ECO mode the instant you purchase it so that the...

That is around the going rate on Autotrader. One thing these discounted prices often include the discount available from the MG affiliate program, so it is worth checking with the seller. Worst case, you will need to join the MG owner's club for 3 months if you can not meet any of the...

What happens if you remove the multiport adapter and just install the flash drive? I have no idea if the car can correctly handle more than one device plugged into the USB C port as a multiport device will report itself as a hub device with more or more other devices attached. Also I'm not...

Just went to check something via the iSMART app, and it decided to request that I enter my password as the token has expired. Just a few things wrong with that - The app never indicated that there was a chance of doing something so stupid as giving up on using my phone's fingerprint reader and...

What format are the tracks stored in? I have about 1,600 tracks all stored in .wav format without any issues for my Trophy to access as and when needed. My directory structure is Artist/Album/Track, so no one directory is too large, with 72 directories at the artist level.

It did not replace; instead, I now have one for driving and one for going places that I need to reach :)

As a side note, trying to use the car's own tools for measuring distance (and speed) is also a problem. The car does not use GPS, instead just the number of wheel revolutions. So the recordings depend on the amount of tread on the tyres. New tyres have a larger diameter than old tyres and so...

However, it is not the copyright holder making the case, but rather a buyer of a car that contains software that does not meet the licence terms set by the copyright holder.