Recent content by Rolfe

Never before having had a car that would do this at all, I'm just happy to have what we have!

Correct. It works, though. If you want a shorter time, start it say five minutes before you're due to leave. Pressing the footbrake turns it off. If you want longer, it will let you start a second session.

One winter evening when I was following a Leaf along a rather windy road I wondered why on earth he kept braking. Then I realised he wasn't, it was just his regen coming on. I've seen my own brake lights come on, reflected in something behind me, when I've taken my foot off the accelerator.

It's just called Tesla. It's a red background with the Tesla logo on it.

I think you ONLY got the facelift version.

I thought it was really funny. Schrodinger's EV. Nobody wants them, but there are fears that they're going to clog up the roads. I wonder if any of these cars are destined for our members?

That sounds absolutely horrendous to be honest. So long as the range recovered with more temperate weather I suppose it's no big deal. I hear that battery degradation is a bit faster at high ambient temperatures, but really I think you have plenty in hand.

Sounds like it's probably repairable. Given that the car is so new, it's probably worth significantly more than it would cost to repair that. Glad everybody is OK! A car is just metal and plastic.

I agree about the battery, but it's a lot of damage. I suppose, as usual, it will come down to whether someone thinks it's economical to fix all that. At least it should be done on the other driver's insurance company's dime, if they admit liability. The problem is that if they decide to write...

Cold? I can only dream of it being that warm! (I expect we'll get there next week.) Once you get down to and under zero you lose a lot more. I'm really surprised you lost such a huge amount when it was extremely hot though.

The point is that you don't want to power everything off, you want the HVAC to stay on. Which it appears it will do if you lock the doors from inside, although I haven't actually tried that yet.

Pleased to hear you're getting on so well!

I think you're probably worrying unnecessarily. While it's recommended to operate between 20% and 80% most of the time, when possible, you're not going to do significant damage by having it under 20% or over 80% for short periods. It's more a case of not leaving it there for days on end. These...

I don't know about the ZS specifically, but that sounds ridiculous. Many if not most people go on holiday for more than a week every year, leaving the car behind. Certainly in the MG4 forum many people have left their cars at airports and parked at home for several weeks with no issues. The car...

Which just about sums up the quality of the journalism, really. I suspect most of them are MG4s. Some happy people in the pipeline. There's a thread on Twitter where people are saying things like, "But I thought no shipping line would carry them," and "when one of these catches fire it's going...